The Grocer's Wife (1991)

First-time feature film writer/director John Pozer creates a world of odd and lonely characters and achieves a highly stylized look on a shoe-string budget.

"Look at it as an anti-erotic examination of sexual obsession. This is a sordid world, it is, and Pozer plays it for cruel laughs, which turns the film into a warped and often artful treasure." *Quote from Bruce Kirkland Canadian Movie Guide review.

The Michelle Apartments (1995)

Alex arrives in a small town to audit the largest employer, Turnbull Chemicals. All the hotel rooms are full with a convention, so he stays at the run-down Michelle Apartments, in the room of a woman who had just died. He is attracted to Madeleine in the apartment above, until he discovers she has a maniacal husband.

*Summary by WIll Gilbert on IMDB.com

Set in a surreal version of a seedy industrial area of British Columbia (the movie was shot in Trail), and absolutely overrun with eccentrics, John Pozer's debut feature is as anti-Hollywood as you can get.

The Michelle Apartments is a black comedy with erotic undercurrents. A surrealistic tone is struck early-on in the film. Bizarre characters and peculiar situations unfold with subtle humour. Director John Pozer combines action with a dream-like and poetic imagery. The film is full of mysterious and symbolically-charged images which create an atmosphere of ominous mystery. In Alex's new world one must accept strange noises from the drains, crackling neon signs and blood stains which return after washing. With an acknowledgement to David Lynch and the Coen brothers, Pozer takes us on a nightmarish but entertaining journey, quite unlike much of what's been done before.

*Review from http://filmfestivalen.se