The Fourfold
2021 · 7m · Canada
Directed by Alisi Telengut
Genres: animation, documentary, experimental
Tones: contemplative, mythic, surreal
Drawing on Mongolian and Siberian animistic traditions, this hand-painted animated film advocates for ecological interdependence.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Hand-painted frame-by-frame animation invoking Mongolian and Siberian animism for ecological argument — Sundance, Aspen Jury Award, Brussels Best Animated. The festivals can't all be wrong even when the synopsis sounds like a grant application. Convinced.
Telengut's hand-painted Mongolian-Siberian animism, Sundance and Aspen jury-decorated, enacts its ecological argument through the labor of its making — the technique is the thesis. Major work in the contemporary animation landscape.
7:14, Sundance 2021, Aspen ShortsFest Jury Award, Canadian Screen Award nominee, Brussels Best Animated Film 2022 — Alisi Telengut's hand-painted-frame-by-frame technique enacts the animism the film argues for, which is exactly the form-content alignment that wins juries. Serious work.
Festivals
- Sundance Film Festival 2021