The formation and history of Lake Baikal in Siberia are re-imagined with hand-made animation, featuring the voice of a Buryat woman who can still recall some words in her endangered Buryat-Mongolian language.
Baigal Nuur – Lake Baikal
- Alisi Telengut
- Canada
- 2023
- 9 mins
- Fri Jan 24
- 2:15 PM
- Market Hall
- Virtual / Hybrid Available
The formation of Lake Baikal is reimagined with the voice of the Indigenous Buryat language.
- Mongolian
- Captioned in English
- Environment, Indigenous Rights
About the Filmmaker
- http://www.alisitelengut.com
- https://www.instagram.com/alisitelengut/
- Filmmaker: Alisi Telengut
- Writer: Alisi Telengut
- Producer: Alisi Telengut, Fabian Driehorst
- Key Cast: Marina Dorzhieva
- Other Credits: Animation: Alisi Telengut; Sound Design: Christian Obermaier
Alisi Telengut is a Canadian artist of Mongolian origin, living between Berlin and Tiohti:áke/Montréal. Her work received multiple awards and nominations and has been screened and exhibited internationally, including at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Sundance Film Festival, TIFF, Videonale, among others.