Already a member? Login here
A Flower is Born. This too shall pass. Even after the longest of winters, and out of the darkest of hours, those first shoots of spring, and sounds of hope, will always return. This reassuring ecard by Isabel Garrett and composer Ben Bavonese is a reminder of the impermanence of life. Savour the highs, ride out the lows, and delight in the new beginnings.
Isabel Garrett is a Welsh animation director interested in telling weird and subversive stories using stop motion, puppetry and live action. Her work is usually focussed on tragic but forceful female characters inhabiting surreal worlds, sometimes uncomfortable and sometimes funny.
Ben Bavonese was encouraged by his twin brother, Noah, who works at the prestigious animation studio Giant Ant, to pursue a life in sound design. His musical grounding comes from spending years transcribing the masters of jazz by ear. He took the same approach sound design, learning by doing, emulating his favourite artists. Alongside his compositions for animation, he is in a jazz and R&B band in Chicago. That energy feeds into his compositions, which are fresh, impeccably produced, and make use of well chosen samples combined with layered melodics.
