Alisi Telengut

Directing

Alisi Telengut

Known for

Directing

Credits

26 titles

Alisi Telengut is a Canadian artist of Mongolian descent. She creates hand-painted animations and short films exploring Indigenous Mongolian culture and nature. Her work has received multiple international awards and nominations, including Best Experimental Film at the 2017 Montreal Animation Film Festival and Best Short Film Award at the 24th Stockholm International Film Festival. In addition to being screened at dozens of international film festivals and exhibitions, Telengut's films have also been contributed to ethnographic and ethnocultural research archives.

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

Vitruvian Moth poster
NR

Narrated from the perspective of a symbiotic creature in the future, the Vitruvian moth recalls their human ancestors and reflects on their own hybrid characteristics.

Vitruvian Moth

2023

Vitruvian Moth poster
NR

Narrated from the perspective of a symbiotic creature in the future, the Vitruvian moth recalls their human ancestors and reflects on their own hybrid characteristics.

Vitruvian Moth

2023

Becoming Air poster
NR

Breathe deeply: in 3 years, your molecules will circle Earth, as today’s oxygen came from nature.

Becoming Air

2025

Becoming Air poster
NR

Breathe deeply: in 3 years, your molecules will circle Earth, as today’s oxygen came from nature.

Becoming Air

2025

The Fourfold poster
5.0

Based on the shamanic rituals in Mongolia and Siberia, this is a testament to the need to reclaim the ideas of animism for planetary health and non-human materialities.

The Fourfold

2020

The Fourfold poster
5.0

Based on the shamanic rituals in Mongolia and Siberia, this is a testament to the need to reclaim the ideas of animism for planetary health and non-human materialities.

The Fourfold

2020

Chant en 14 temps poster
NR

The piece poetically unites abstract and textural moving images with a traditional Syrian song that was written by Omar El Batch in Aleppo around the year 1900.

Chant en 14 temps

2017

Sila, Silap Inua, Silla poster
NR

Associated with the exhibition "Critical Zones" at ZKM in Karlsruhe, the work explores the ideas of "sila" and "critical zones" and was created as part an excursion from Filmuniversitaet Babelsberg to ZKM, Germany.

Sila, Silap Inua, Silla

2020

Nutag – Homeland poster
6.4

A non-narrative hand-painted visual poem about diaspora, homeland, and the tragic mass-deportations of the Kalmyk people during WWII.

Nutag – Homeland

2017

No artwork available
NR

This film is not a recipe of animation techniques of making a handpainted animated film under the camera. Rather, by working with the animation technique in a long journey of solitude, it is an original and intimate way of revealing the “thing-hood” (Heidegger: Dinglichkeit) of the artistic and cinematic medium, “the thing in itself” (Kant: Ding an sich), and uniting with the world. Animation as an art form, even though heavily dependent on modern technology, technical apparatus and progression, should embrace the original and the widest sense of "technē" as a mode of revealing and bringing forth whatever does not appear in front us. With a sense of animism, this revealing is poetic, mysterious and self-referential.

Solitude

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Long Live Mountains poster
NR

Short animation produced for an exhibition in Germany.

Long Live Mountains

2020

La grogne poster
NR

A child by all means tries to gain her father's affection, but the family dog proves to be a fierce rival.

La grogne

2021

La grogne poster
NR

A child by all means tries to gain her father's affection, but the family dog proves to be a fierce rival.

La grogne

2021

La grogne poster
NR

A child by all means tries to gain her father's affection, but the family dog proves to be a fierce rival.

La grogne

2021

Tengri poster
NR

Wind burial, influenced by Shamanism, is an old Mongolian tradition. When someone dies, the corpse is carried on a cart until a bump causes the body to fall. The place where the body lands becomes a simple tomb.

Tengri

2012

Solitude poster
NR

Animating is a long journey of solitide.

Solitude

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Lake Baikal poster
8.0

In this remarkably tactile animation, Alisi Telengut reimagines the formation of a sacred lake in Siberia and draws connections between an endangered Indigenous language and matters of history, ecology, and humanity.

Lake Baikal

2023

Lake Baikal poster
8.0

In this remarkably tactile animation, Alisi Telengut reimagines the formation of a sacred lake in Siberia and draws connections between an endangered Indigenous language and matters of history, ecology, and humanity.

Lake Baikal

2023

Lake Baikal poster
8.0

In this remarkably tactile animation, Alisi Telengut reimagines the formation of a sacred lake in Siberia and draws connections between an endangered Indigenous language and matters of history, ecology, and humanity.

Lake Baikal

2023

Tears of Inge poster
NR

A profound human-animal and human-nature relationship is represented by a painted world filled with a camel’s emotion and tears

Tears of Inge

2013

The Backyard poster
NR

The Backyard, a part of the "Hidden Layers of The City" project at Agora Hydro-Québec du Cœur des sciences de l’UQAM

The Backyard

2013

No artwork available
NR

Long Live Forest is an experimental short film based on the digital imageries of various constructed landscapes, composed of artificial materials and natural elements, paintings and real plants, to embrace the idea of the multi-layered nature-culture continuum.

Long Live Forest

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No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Vive les montagnes !

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Materia poster
NR

Brakhage-like animation with close-ups of rocks and fibers, and credits that describe them “in order of appearance.”

Materia

2026