A Tax on Pochsy (a.k.a. "The Audit") - Synopsis:
Set in the waiting room at an audit from hell, this dark little satire steals both from early horror films and contemporary Noxzema ads. Pochsy is a mercury-poisoned factory worker who glows like the ghost of a silent film star and is pretty as the corpse. Victim and perpetrator, poisonous and poisoned, Pochsy is a spokesgirl for a North American Dream gone mad, defending a century’s worth of shaky citizenship and the darkest corners of our collective soul as she descends through seven levels of hell in anticipation of her "reassessment."
"A hilarious, 16-minute tour de force..." Calgary Herald
At its recent premiere screening "A Tax on Pochsy" won the
Best of Alberta Award, 2009, Calgary International Film Festival
and will soon screen at festivals nationally and internationally.
Key Production Credits:
- Karen Hines – Writer, Director, Performer, Producer
- Patrick McLaughlin - Cinematographer
- Greg Morrison – Composer
- Jamie Francey - Picture Editor
- Benny Zenga - Cinematographer
- Greg Woodbury - Cinematographer
- John Turner – First Assistant Director, Co-Producer, Collaborator
- Sandra Balcovske - Story Editor, Collaborator
- Frank Laratta - Sound Editor
- Peter Moller - Graphic Artist, Stills
- Richard McDowell – Technical Advisor/ Web Design