Growing Girl
2021 · 11m
Directed by Marnie Ellen Hertzler
Genres: animation, essay film, experimental
Tones: darkly comic, provocative, surreal
A PowerPoint presentation about snakes that uses stock photo characters and unconventional animation to explore office culture, female identity, and an unnamed social trauma.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A PowerPoint about snakes that is actually about female identity and trauma. Marnie Ellen Hertzler using Microsoft Office as a confessional. Yes.
Hertzler again, doing a corporate-PowerPoint deck about snakes and trauma — using office aesthetics as the form for an essay on female identity is a sharp conceptual gesture, the kind only an artist genuinely interested in misused media can pull off.
A literal PowerPoint deck about snakes carrying a story of office culture and trauma. Hertzler again — that form/content collision is the kind of craft choice you can't fake, and the PowerPoint metaphor is too good to skip.