Alisi Telengut

History

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.

Movies

Baigal Nuur - Lake Baikal
Baigal Nuur - Lake Baikal
Director
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.
La grogne
La grogne
Director
A child by all means tries to gain her father's affection, but the family dog proves to be a fierce rival.
La grogne
La grogne
Editor
A child by all means tries to gain her father's affection, but the family dog proves to be a fierce rival.
La grogne
La grogne
Screenplay
A child by all means tries to gain her father's affection, but the family dog proves to be a fierce rival.
La grogne
La grogne
Producer
A child by all means tries to gain her father's affection, but the family dog proves to be a fierce rival.
The Fourfold
The Fourfold
Sound Designer
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
The Fourfold
Animation
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
The Fourfold
Director
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.
Nutag – Homeland
Nutag – Homeland
Sound Designer
A non-narrative hand-painted visual poem about diaspora, homeland, and the tragic mass-deportations of the Kalmyk people during WWII.
Nutag – Homeland
Nutag – Homeland
Animation
A non-narrative hand-painted visual poem about diaspora, homeland, and the tragic mass-deportations of the Kalmyk people during WWII.
Nutag – Homeland
Nutag – Homeland
Director
A non-narrative hand-painted visual poem about diaspora, homeland, and the tragic mass-deportations of the Kalmyk people during WWII.
Tears of Inge
Tears of Inge
Director
A profound human-animal and human-nature relationship is represented by a painted world filled with a camel’s emotion and tears
Tengri
Tengri
Director
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.
The Backyard
The Backyard
Director