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Primanima World Festival of First Animation

Student Jury Award

Primanima World Festival of First Animation

Primary Grand Prize

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Benjamin Morard

Director

Frederic Siegel

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From the animation collective Team Tumult, based in Switzerland, comes “The Lonely Orbit.” This beautiful short explores loneliness in the ultra-connected area and what happens when artificial intelligence develops feelings as intense as those experienced by human beings. A young Earth-bound satellite operator commits an oblivious mistake, pushing a machine into the uncharted territory of yearning. Directors Benjamin Morard and Frederic Siegel work on a studiously limited modernist palette: blue, orange and white, conveying space-age aesthetics and deep empathy.

“The Lonely Orbit” is the winner of the Student Jury Award at the 2019 Primanima World Festival of First Animation.

Interview with Benjamin Morard and Frederic Siegel | Codirectors of The Lonely Orbit

An interview with Benjamin Morard and Frederic Siegel, codirectors of "The Lonely Orbit", a beautiful animated short film about a scientist aching for human connection in a futurist world where communication is mediated by technology. The modernist animation style conveys a stylish world with a color palette limited to just three colors. A oblivious mistake creates a chain reaction of events that bring the system down, and leaves a surprisingly sentient satellite adrift. Winner of the Student Jury Award at the 2019 Primanima World Festival of First Animation, and nominated for the Primary Grand Prize.

Animated Indie Movies In Space: Siegel & Morard's "The Lonely Orbit"

Low budget movies don't get more indie than animated shorts, but ingenuity goes a long way in this medium. Space-age design and XXI-century emotionality meet in The Lonely Orbit, and it looks like a million bucks. Team Tumult, a Switzerland-based creative collective, is behind this award-winning animated short now streaming on Popflick.