The Backyard

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.

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

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.

Animating is a long journey of solitide.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Short animation produced for an exhibition in Germany.