Creepy Good

Eli Kramer's picture

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.

So much of what one does on camera tends to be abbreviated, chopped-up pieces of a script. Don't get me wrong; I love that way of working and its inherent challenges. But here in improv land (with very compelling and well-crafted givens), we got to stretch out. So fluid.

I heard about a prisoner who, when asked what he'd do when he got out, said, "Pet a dog and walk in a straight line until I get tired." That's what working on Canary felt like. Easy and natural and unusual.

It sure didn't hurt that the cast ruled. Larissa and I had an extremely intense time. Kerry, Jeff, and Johann were just right.

"This second feature by Alejandro Adams confirms him as an arresting talent. [Viewers] may be fascinated to the point of repeat viewings to sort out its myriad characters and half-buried clues."
-- Dennis Harvey, Variety


"Wildly ambitious...an overwhelming and surprisingly fresh-feeling sense of dystopian dread."
-- Karina Longworth, Spout


"[CANARY is] terrific...very creepy and uncanny. It's quite an achievement."
-- Phillip Lopate


"Mysterious, elliptical, Bresson-like. [CANARY] is to biotech what PRIMER was to time-travel."
-- Richard von Busack, Metro


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