Growing Girl

Growing Girl

2017 · 11 min

Utilizing unconventional animation platforms, and stock photo characters, Growing Girl explores the form and setting of office culture, the reclamation of an empowered female identity, and a remedy for the internalization of an all-too-common social conflict.

Directed by Marnie Ellen Hertzler

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