I’m going to San Jose to attend the Cinequest 2009 film festival. Canary, a film I did cinematography for, is having its world premiere this weekend. A dystopian sci-fi thriller, it was shot in a naturalistic style in SD on multiple DVX100’s under the direction of Alejandro Adams, a San Francisco Bay Area director. Alejandro worked without a script and often did not inform the actors what would be happening in any given scene until they showed up on set. The actors would mostly improvise in continuous takes that would last up to 30 minutes. This resulted in a lot of footage, but yielded some magical and genuine moments. Richard von Busack of Metroactive calls it ”Mysterious, elliptical, Bresson-like.” Watch the trailer at the Canary website. And see my other blog posts there!