Through macro- and microscopic imaging, Telengut reveals the hidden kinship between the human body and the mineral world.
Canada
2025
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Credits & Director
Producer
Alisi Telengut
Cinematography
Alisi Telengu
Editor
Alisi Telengut
Original Music
Christian Obermaier, Alisi Telengut
Alisi Telengut
Alisi Telengut is a Canadian artist of Mongolian roots, living between Berlin, Germany and Tiohtià:ke/ Montréal, Canada. She creates animation frame by frame under the camera with mixed media to generate movement, and explore hand-made and painterly visuals for her work. Her work has been screened and exhibited internationally, such as at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures (USA), Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art (USA), Sundance Film Festival (USA), TIFF and TIFF Canada’s Top Ten, Annecy International Animation Festival (France), Biennial VIDEONALE, many more. Telengut is an assistant professor in Film Animation at Concordia University (Canada).
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