17th Cinema on the Bayou Virtual Film Festival

ANIMATED SHORTS 1 (84 MIN)

Expired February 7, 2022 5:00 AM
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9 films in package
LA SAISON DES HIBISCUS (HIBISCUS SEASON)
Zaire, January 1993. Rachel's family, an 8-year-old French girl, lives in Kinshasa in a house overlooking the Congo River.
THE FOURFOLD
Based on the ancient animistic beliefs and shamanic rituals in Mongolia and Siberia, the film explores the indigenous worldview and wisdom: Nature is the homeland of human being, Tengri is the deity and the father sky, Earth is the mother with rivers nourishing all beings, pagan and pantheist gods co-exist with all mortals.
TERRE
Terre is a stop-motion animation short-film that navigates through different landscapes.
NIGHTLINK
Set in Dublin after the pubs close. While telling God what he really thinks of him Ronan aggravates a bunch of Púca who were having a few drinks in a nearby dimension. F
AUTOPORTRAIT ENTRE PRAGUE ET VIENNE (LIEUX ET MONUMENTS - 12) (SELFPORTRAIT BETWEEN PRAGUE AND VIENNA)
On 2 November 2014, I travelled by train from Prague to Vienna.
DANS UN RECTANGLE ABSOLU, LE PRINTEMPS (A QUADRANGLE OF SPRING)
In Quebec, as everywhere around the world, the Spring of 2020 was drastically changed by the Covid 19 pandemic.
Le long cri du train qui passe se glisse au cœur des spectres et tout explose en silence (The long wail of a passing train slips into the heart of the ghosts and everything explodes into silence)
An experimental animated film built around a single sound recording that evokes travel, the need to communicate, solitude, fragility, the desire for freedom, the arrival of fall, and our ephemeral existence.
OTONASHI
Painted in silence a sparrow’s dream invokes timeless harmonies.
FESTIN EN CAPSULE (ENCAPSULATED FEAST)
A man checks in at a hotel at the end of the day, then walks into a few bistros and bars where he eats and drinks to excess.
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Based on the ancient animistic beliefs and shamanic rituals in Mongolia and Siberia, the film explores the indigenous worldview and wisdom: Nature is the homeland of human being, Tengri is the deity and the father sky, Earth is the mother with rivers nourishing all beings, pagan and pantheist gods co-exist with all mortals.


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.


Director's Biography:


COTB alum Alisi Telengut (1989) is a visual artist, filmmaker and animator currently based in Montreal, Quebec. She creates animation frame by frame under the camera, with painting as the medium, to generate movement and explore hand-made and painterly

visuals for her films. She is interested in the notions of visual poetry, lyrical representations of memory, and experimental ethnography. Her recent films received awards at the 20th Reel Asian, 24th Stockholm Film Festival, the 36th and the 37th

Montreal World Film Festival, and Canada International Film Festival. In addition to being selected at Sundance, TIFF, Cannes (Talent tout court), Slamdance, Festival du nouveau cinéma, Edinburgh, ZINEBI and various worldwide film venues and exhibitions as animation and moving image artworks, these films have also contributed to ethnographic, ethnocultural and archaeological research archives.

  • Year
    2020
  • Runtime
    7 minutes
  • Language
    Mongolian
  • Country
    Canada
  • Premiere
    Louisiana Premiere
  • Director
    Alisi Telengut
  • Producer
    Alisi Telengut
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