Team Tumult’s animation tackles loneliness and our reliance on technology Inspired by the studio’s own interactions with digital communication, the animated short shows what can happen when it becomes all consuming 09/03/2021 10:02 am In The Lonely Orbit, a man leaves home for his dream job as a satellite technician. Feeling isolated, he constantly texts old friends but with his mind elsewhere, his work suffers, and things start to go wrong with the satellites he’s looking after. The short was created by Zurich-based animation studio Team Tumult, a team of six long-time friends and collaborators, who all met each other through studying and freelance work in Zurich and Lucerne. For The Lonely Orbit, Frederic Siegel and Benjamin Morard worked together as co-directors on the project.