Directing

Alisi Telengut

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 …

Known For

The Fourfold

The Fourfold · 2020

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.

Solitude

Animating is a long journey of solitide.

Becoming Air

Becoming Air · 2025

MovieAnimationDocumentary

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

The Backyard

The Backyard · 2013

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

Tengri

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.

Vitruvian Moth

Vitruvian Moth · 2023

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.

Tears of Inge

Tears of Inge · 2013

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

Thin Skinned

Thin Skinned · 2026

MovieAnimationHorror

Torn between opening up to her partner and fleeing, a young girl has to travel to a surreal organic world in order to confront all of her fears and insecurities.

Filmography

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The Fourfold

The Fourfold · 2020

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.

Director

Solitude

Animating is a long journey of solitide.

Director

Becoming Air

Becoming Air · 2025

MovieAnimationDocumentary

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

Director

The Backyard

The Backyard · 2013

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

Director

Tengri

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.

Director

Vitruvian Moth

Vitruvian Moth · 2023

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.

Director

Tears of Inge

Tears of Inge · 2013

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

Director

Thin Skinned

Thin Skinned · 2026

MovieAnimationHorror

Torn between opening up to her partner and fleeing, a young girl has to travel to a surreal organic world in order to confront all of her fears and insecurities.

Supervising Animator

Materia

Materia · 2026

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

Director

Nutag – Homeland

Nutag – Homeland · 2017

Nutag – Homeland

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

Sound Designer

La grogne

La grogne · 2021

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

Producer

Lake Baikal

Lake Baikal · 2023

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.

Director

Chant en 14 temps

Chant en 14 temps · 2017

Chant en 14 temps

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.

Director

Sila, Silap Inua, Silla

Sila, Silap Inua, Silla · 2020

Sila, Silap Inua, Silla

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.

Director

Long Live Mountains

Long Live Mountains · 2020

Long Live Mountains

Short animation produced for an exhibition in Germany.

Director