Aggressive yet Zen, legendary surfer Gerry Lopez was the kind of enigmatic athlete prone to ruthlessly stealing waves one minute and quieting the mind through meditation and yoga the next. A father and husband, entrepreneur and a shaper of surfboards, Lopez’s unabashed devotion to big waves sometimes led to hot water: brawls, gashes and even gazing longingly at the surf on the way to his own wedding. Told through introspective conversations, vibrant animation and jaw-dropping footage of Lopez gliding serenely through the towering blue-green barrels of monstrous waves, The Yin & Yang of Gerry Lopez  — directed by award-winning filmmaker Stacy Peralta — beckons viewers into the inner world of one of the surf industry’s biggest personas of the past half-century.