As the recent public falling out of White Lotus musician Cristobal Tapia de Veer and showrunner Mike White demonstrated, the relationship between director and composer isn’t always an easy one. And if the director also happens to have had a hand in the writing of the music, you’d imagine that the potential for conflict would be even higher.
This was the scenario faced by Rihards Zalupe, composer on the Oscar-winning Latvian animated movie, Flow. Created in open-source graphics software, Blender, this tells the story of a cat and other animals trying to survive a rising tide in what appears to be some kind of post-apocalyptic landscape.
