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. Alisi's work has been screened and exhibited internationally, such as at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures (USA), Sundance Film Festival (USA), TIFF (Canada), Annecy International Animation Festival (France), Whitney Biennial, Biennial VIDEONALE at Kunstmuseum Bonn - Museum of Painting and Contemporary Art Bonn (Germany), OSTRALE Biennale (Germany), 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). Alisi 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 Best Short Film at Stockholm Film Festival (Sweden), Best Animated Film at Mammoth Lakes Film Festival (USA) and Brussel Independent Film Festival (Belgium), as well as Jury Award at the Aspen Shortsfest (USA). Her work has not only been presented as animation and moving image artworks with the unique visual style, but have also contributed to ethnographic and ethnocultural research. Her recent work has been added to the permanent collection of Art Science Exhibits (USA/Germany) that represents the leading-edge of art making with dedication to positive action for Earth's recovery.

Alisi is a newly hired tenure-track assistant professor in Film Animation, Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University. She was a guest lecturer in Moving Image study area at the Berlin University of the Arts - UdK (Germany). Alisi is currently a PhD candidate 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. 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.