Christina Zeidler

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 tale of the snake retold.

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.

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.

"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

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.

A chubby girl tries to find the perfect outfit for the big concert. Trouble is, nothing fits.

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.

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.

An ode by a socially conscious carnivore to creatures that get crunched.

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.

"Fartasia" was made by running film through a sewing machine. The result is, as the filmmaker says, "surprisingly organic."

The Mod Squad meets Faster Pussycat meets Queer Nation with Fast Car.

"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.