Frederic Siegel

Frederic Siegel (born 1991 in Cham, Zug) is a Swiss animation director, illustrator and visual artist, working both in Zurich and Bern.
He studied animation at the Lucerne School of Art & Design and graduated in 2015 with the short film Ruben Leaves, which was screened at international film festivals like Annecy, Dok Leipzig and Encounters in Bristol. It won several awards, including the Swiss Film Award for the best graduation film in 2016.
In 2017 he co-founded the Zurich-based animation collective Team Tumult and is collaborating with his colleagues on commissioned work and personal projects ever since. Together they produced the short film The Lonely Orbit, an allegorical story about loneliness in times of modern communication. After premiering at NIFFF Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival and Guanajuato International Film Festival, the film went on to be long-listed for the Oscars Academy Awards in 2021.
In his work, Frederic Siegel regularly explores the turbulent inner worlds of ordinary characters, who are influenced by technology, societal pressure and other mental challenges. He is conveying his fluid sense of reality by utilizing digital hand-drawn animation and limited but vivid color palettes.
Aside from his work as an animator, he is teaching animation basics in the Multimedia Production program at the FHGR Fachhochschule Graubünden and FHB Berner Fachhochschule.