Signe Baumane
Signe Baumane (born 7 August 1964) is a Latvian animator, artist, illustrator and writer, currently living and working in New York City.She relocated to New York City in September 1995, finding work with Bill Plympton as production manager, color stylist, and cel painter the following January.The film examines the biological chemistry of love and gender, as well as societal pressures on an individual to conform to the social mores of the times.The voice cast includes Dagmara Dominczyk, Matthew Modine, Cameron Monaghan, Stephen Lang, Erica Schroeder, Emma Kenney, and Michele Pawk in key roles.Her narrative style uses visual metaphors to communicate how living people feel inside; one example is in her animated short Birth her use of the body as a vessel in her film.[9] Baumane's Teat Beat of Sex, a series of semi fictionalized personal recollections that stem from the artist's firsthand experience and an array of viewpoints on the subject, are uncompromisingly yet refreshingly candid, oftentimes dealing with somewhat taboo areas that can serve as discussion points.