Christina Zeidler

Portrait of a Serial Monogamist

Christina Zeidler, John Mitchell

Grace Lynn Kung, Robin Duke

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.

If Anyone Should Happen to Get In My Way

Christina Zeidler, Allyson Mitchell

Christina Zeidler

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.

Glitter

Christina Zeidler, Allyson Mitchell

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.

Sssssssss

Christina Zeidler

Christina Zeidler

The tale of the snake retold.

Sea of Love

Christina Zeidler

"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

Soul Sucka

Christina Zeidler

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

Kill Road

Christina Zeidler

Ali Soles, Deirdre Logue

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.

Fartasia

Christina Zeidler

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

Unca Trans

Christina Zeidler, Allyson Mitchell

Adrien Whan

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.

Traces

Christina Zeidler

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.

Linda Barry: Ina Unt Ina

Christina Zeidler

Christina Zeidler, Celina Carroll

"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.