WorK-Life Balance

A cutting portrayal of the pursuit of worklife balance from the cartoonist of Shit is Real To achieve the proper worklife balance perhaps we just need the right therapist to coach us through our daytoday. Anita Sandra and Dex have ambitions. Anita wants to move from making utility ceramics to fineart sculpture but her pentup dissatisfaction results in an outburst that puts her studio mate’s work at risk. Sandra juggles her practical administrative day job at a startup with her wellnessinfluencer channel finding both in jeopardy when a messy affair with a coworker comes to light. In another corner of the same startup Dex’s innovative ideas are rejected leading him to spend his days hacking and working as a bike courier. All three are disillusioned with the daily grind. As the pressure for selfimprovement builds they end up looking to the same therapist for answers. Soon the boundaries between work and life begin to bleed into each other and it becomes increasingly impossible to find balance. All the solace the characters expect their therapist to provide is obscured by her quirks whims and psychoparlance leading to sessions that are neglectful at best and actively inhibit growth at worst. In striking colors and trippy transformational sequences Aisha Franz captures the comedic absurdity of contemporary work life and the wellness culture in Work Life Balance.