Alisi Telengut

Alisi Telengut is a Canadian artist of Mongolian roots. 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 at Kunstmuseum Bonn - Museum of Painting and Contemporary Art Bonn (Germany), OSTRALE Biennale (Germany), Larnaca Biennale (Greece), Anthology Film Archives (USA), the Canadian Cultural Centre at the Embassy of Canada in France, CICA Museum - Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (South Korea), UNESCO World Heritage Site Zollverein (Germany), Images Festival (Canada), Image Forum (Japan). 

Telengut is a Canadian Screen Award nominee and a Québec Cinéma Awards - Prix Iris winner in Best Animated Film. Her work received multiple international awards and nominations, including the awards from Stockholm Film Festival (Sweden), GoShorts Nijmegen (the Netherlands), Brussel Independent Film Festival (Belgium), Aspen Shortsfest (USA), among others. Her work has not only contributed to ethnographic and ethnocultural research but has also been presented in the touring Climate Stories screening program, curated by the British Council, at the COP16 Conference in Saudi Arabia and at the HEI - House of European Institutes in Romania. Her recent work has been added to the permanent collection of Art Science Exhibits (USA/Germany), which represents the leading edge of artmaking with a dedication to positive action for Earth's recovery.

Telengut is a newly hired tenure-track assistant professor in Film Animation, Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University (Canada). She was a guest lecturer/Gastdozentin in Moving Image study area at the Berlin University of the Arts - UdK (Germany). She is completing a PhD in Scientific-Artistic Research (wissenschaftlich-künstlerische Forschung) at the Filmuniversitaet Babelsberg Konrad Wolf (Germany). She obtained her Master in Fine Arts in Studio Arts with an option in Film Production, and a Bachelor in Fine Arts in Film Animation at Concordia University (Canada). Her research and practice have been supported through grants, scholarships and residencies, including the Canada Council for the Arts, SSHRC - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, CALQ - Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, and Graduiertenstipendium from Filmuniversitaet Babelsberg.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Telengut, Alisi. “Exploring the Conception of Zoe/Geo/Techno Assemblage in Artistic Practice.” In Transversal Interlacings: Artistic Research in Film and Philosophy, edited by Stefan Winter and Christine Reeh-Peters. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (submitted, publication in 2025/2026).

Telengut, Alisi. “The Fourfold: Reclaiming Animism.” PUBLIC Journal 2024, no. 69 (2024): 31–35. https://doi.org/10.1386/public_00184_1.

Non–Peer-Reviewed Publications

Telengut, Alisi. “Written Contribution to the Main Artist Initiative.” Main Film, October 2024. https://mainfilm.qc.ca/en/membres/alisi-telengut/.