Over the course of their decade-long filmmaking collaboration, Vicky Langan and Maximilian Le Cain have created an intimate and distinctive cinematic universe. Personal Growth is an enigmatic film that could have been made at any point in the last sixty years. It conveys the haunting indictment of the privacy of a home movie, of great significance to its creators but disturbingly mysterious to viewers. Its grainy black-and-white S8 texture vividly renders the elemental seascapes of the Irish coast where it was filmed. Langan and Le Cain appear as a couple who inhabit this wild terrain as if it were a domestic arena.