Directing
Enduring a dysfunctional family requires stamina, wit and sharp survival instincts, as demonstrated in this anguished ode to family peculiarity. A pixelated tale of a girl whose off-kilter parents become lost in a mission to nurse a raccoon - an unfortunate road-kill victim.
Set in an agrarian future, Unca Trans is a short animated Super 8 film in which the title character pontificates about gender theory and activism back in the 2000s.
A chubby girl tries to find the perfect outfit for the big concert. Trouble is, nothing fits.
As two twits dance their fears away at a roadside farmers market, via costumery and choreography, they bring lesbian glamour where it was not ever.
The tale of the snake retold.
Smart, successful, and charming, Elsie is the perfect girlfriend; she also happens to be a serial monogamist, with a long history of broken hearts. When Elsie breaks up with her long-standing girlfriend to pursue another woman, she faces her mother’s disapproval, conflicting advice from friends, and the nagging suspicion that she may have made a big mistake. Set in the Parkdale neighborhood of Toronto, Portrait of a Serial Monogamist invites audiences to peek behind the curtain to a world of smart, funny and relatable queer characters, dealing with the universal complications of modern relationships. Not another coming out story, this is a fresh coming-of-middle-age romantic comedy.
The Mod Squad meets Faster Pussycat meets Queer Nation with Fast Car.
Stunning hand-tinted imagery intermingles with a love letter to the artist's departed dog Mica. Bittersweet as any country song, so familiar you swear you've heard it before - but it's just your heart breaking, worn and sure. Made at Phil Hoffman's Film Farm, 2001.
The autobiopic "My Life in 5 Minutes" tells a life story with a bittersweet song, animation and family snaps. Some photos hold painful or awkward members for the artist; through computer animation, she enlarges her own eyes to blink the pain away.
This animation was shot from hi-con coloured Lomo photographs of a girl in various animal states, licking her wounds. A meditation on female anger.
"In the Town of Banff they must have 50 candy stores on the main street. They sell these little candy deer. Banff is a National Park and so the real dear are all around you, and the stuffed and mounted ones too. I played with the images of the deer and idea of anthropomorphism in this piece. The sound track really up the ante on that." - Christina Zeidler
An ode by a socially conscious carnivore to creatures that get crunched.
"Fartasia" was made by running film through a sewing machine. The result is, as the filmmaker says, "surprisingly organic."
"ina unt ina" euro-electro-pop divas are back from windy tropical islands to offer you this perfect pop illusion for pleasure. The music is music, You are feeling the feeling.
