8th Blue Danube Film Festival

Alisi Telengut is a Canadian artist of Mongolian roots, living between Berlin, Germany, and Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, Canada. She creates frame-by-frame animation under the camera with mixed media to explore movement, hand-made processes, and painterly visuals. Her work has been presented internationally, including the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures (USA), Whitney Biennial (USA), Sundance Film Festival (USA), TIFF and TIFF Canada’s Top Ten, Annecy International Animation Festival (France), VIDEONALE at Kunstmuseum Bonn (Germany), among others. Telengut is Assistant Professor in Film Animation at Concordia University (Canada).

De-indiginezed filmmaker born in México City. Through a poetic, ludic and sensory approach, her work explores questions of territory, nature, legacy and identity that traverse her Brown body and her intimate sphere. Titixe (2018), her first feature documentary in which she holds directing, editing, producing and cinematography credits, has been selected in more than forty international film festivals and collected several awards. In 2019, she was selected as a Flaherty Seminar – Professional Development Fellow (Flaherty Seminar, NY) and was awarded the Charles C. Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award (Full Frame FF, NC). She currently works on her second film My Body Is an Expanding Star, in collaboration with Semillites Hernández Velasco. This project has been supported by FOCINE-IMCINE (2021) and Firelight Media’s William Greaves Fund (United States, 2021).