The formation of Lake Baikal in Siberia is 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.
https://alisitelengut.com/Baigal-Nuur-Lake-Baikal-2023
Official Trailer: https://vimeo.com/852846227
Alisi Telengut is a Canadian artist of Mongolian roots, living between Berlin and Tiohti:áke/Montréal. Her work has received multiple awards and nominations and been screened and exhibited internationally, including at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Sundance Film Festival, TIFF, and Videonale, among others.
Filmography
2013 Tears of Inge
2016 Nutag-Homeland
2020 The Fourfold
2021 La grogne
2023 Baigal Nuur - Lake Baikal