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Phoning It In

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Love the phone acting. It was so good to connect with Larissa again, and to have her take the upper hand. At the end of the call, I was still in it. She'd hung up and I was calling her name into the dead phone.

Preproduction Shows

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Alex's hand could be felt all over this shoot, but he used relatively few words. The atmosphere was controlled and efficient, but soft and open. It's no joke to coordinate a three-camera shoot, but the whole thing was so low key. Nothing got in the way. It seemed like we were shooting a lot of the time. Our cohesion as an ensemble for that day's scenes was 95% there when we arrived; the casting was that good. Very nice.

Creepy Good

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It's a very creepy website. I feel an arresting sense of altered reality by entering this zone. Very akin to the feeling on set for my day on Canary. Alex gave us some very cogent written information about our relationships, desires, and the situation and then cut us loose.

"CANARY is to biotech what PRIMER is to time-travel. It's a cerebral, tantalizing fantasy...[The director's] talent shows through this film in every aspect. [Actress] Carla Pauli is perfect."
-- Richard von Busack,
Silicon Valley Metro


"Like the best 'little' films, CANARY is a very big film...full of wonder and menace...It is a film to be reckoned with, to be savored, and not to be forgotten."
-- Nick Rombes, Digital Poetics