Presented by the Critical Media Club, with a conversation with Alisi Telengut after the screening.

Baigal Nuur-Lake Baikal (9')
The formation of Lake Baikal in Siberia is reimagined with hand-painted animation and found objects, featuring the voice of an Indigenous woman who can still recall some words in her endangered Buryat language (a Mongolian dialect).

Vitruvian Moth (1')
The Vitruvian moth stands in contrast to the ideals of the Vitruvian Man, who became the measure and scheme of things, excluding racialized, sexualized, and naturalized others from full humanity. 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

The Fourfold (7'14)
Based on the ancient animistic beliefs and shamanic rituals in Mongolia and Siberia, an exploration of the indigenous worldview and wisdom. Against the backdrop of the modern existential crisis and the human-induced rapid environmental change, there is a necessity to reclaim the ideas of animism for planetary health and non-human materialities.

Nutag-Homeland (6')
A non-narrative hand-painted visual poem about diaspora, homeland, and the tragic mass-deportations of the Kalmyk people during WWII.

Tears of Inge (4')
A profound human-animal and human-nature relationship is represented by a painted world filled with a camel's emotion and tears. It is based on a real Mongolian nomadic story narrated by my grandmother.

Tengri (5'34) 
Tengri is about the Wind Burial, a traditional Mongolian ritual that is deeply rooted in the Shamanic belief. When a person dies, the wind spirit will guide the person’s soul to ascend, ultimately to the cradle of father heaven (Tengri). “Tengri” is a Turkic word, which refers not only the holy, blue sky, but also the primary deity of nature that has been worshipped by Mongolic and Turkic peoples. It compromises Shamanism, Animism and other spiritual practices that connect people, spirits and nature together.

Bio: 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. 

Location: Critical Media Lab, Peterson Hall, Room 108.