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Alisi Telengut
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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
NRNarrated 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
NRBreathe deeply: in 3 years, your molecules will circle Earth, as today’s oxygen came from nature.
Becoming Air
2025
5.0Based 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
NRThe 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
NRAssociated 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
6.4A non-narrative hand-painted visual poem about diaspora, homeland, and the tragic mass-deportations of the Kalmyk people during WWII.
Nutag – Homeland
2017
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NRNarrated 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
NRNarrated 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
NRBreathe deeply: in 3 years, your molecules will circle Earth, as today’s oxygen came from nature.
Becoming Air
2025
NRBreathe deeply: in 3 years, your molecules will circle Earth, as today’s oxygen came from nature.
Becoming Air
2025
5.0Based 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
5.0Based 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
NRThe 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
NRAssociated 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
6.4A non-narrative hand-painted visual poem about diaspora, homeland, and the tragic mass-deportations of the Kalmyk people during WWII.
Nutag – Homeland
2017
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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NRShort animation produced for an exhibition in Germany.
Long Live Mountains
2020
NRA child by all means tries to gain her father's affection, but the family dog proves to be a fierce rival.
La grogne
2021
NRA child by all means tries to gain her father's affection, but the family dog proves to be a fierce rival.
La grogne
2021
NRA child by all means tries to gain her father's affection, but the family dog proves to be a fierce rival.
La grogne
2021
NRWind 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
NRAnimating is a long journey of solitide.
Solitude
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8.0In 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
8.0In 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
8.0In 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
NRA 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
NRThe 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
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 synopsis available yet.
Vive les montagnes !
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NRBrakhage-like animation with close-ups of rocks and fibers, and credits that describe them “in order of appearance.”
Materia
2026
