Produced by Marina Zurkow, Brain Girl is a ’she-borg’ style character as her form is a hybrid of both human body and technology. A girl with no eyes who wears her large brain on the outside, connoting intelligence as her most significant trait.
As a cyborg, Brain Girl is a boundary creature of both technolocgical and human elements, her breasts are plug like and she is prompted into life by a miniature scuba diver who plugs her in ‘matrix style’ with the insertion of prong-like device to the back of her head.
Brain Girl’s big brain occupies two-thirds of her face, so her face and hair are not used to connote girlhood, but her pre-pubescant curved line, or ‘camels-foot pussy’ as Zurkow suggests, represents her pre-pubescent femaleness or girlhood.
Brain girl is is a tough and independent girl symbolized by her action-hero stance who frequently appears with a meek, male offsider Bag Boy. Brain Girl is a grassroots, independent production that exemlifies innovation in both the new ways of representing gender and narrative.
See nine Brain Girl episodes - here Brain Girl (PS. this work is for adult viewing)
Creator of Brain Girl, Marina Zurkow is interviewed about Brain Girl by Ruth Ozeki from Bitch Magazine’s.
Posted on January 20th, 2007 by animatingwomen
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