Synopsis
Based on the ancient animistic beliefs and shamanic rituals in Mongolia and Siberia, the film explores the indigenous worldview and wisdom. 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.
A word from Tënk
Animation is perhaps one of the most fertile forms of cinema for addressing the major issues that affect us. In The Fourfold, Canadian artist Alisi Telengut of Mongolian origin plunges us into the Mongolian and Siberian cosmogonies told through the voice of her grandmother. Through oil pastel drawings and the use of various mixed media, the filmmaker evokes image by image all the beauty and power of the nature that surrounds us, the "homeland of every living being" as her grandmother reminds us. An ode to the preservation of the environment through ancestral rites that confronts us with our relationship to the sacred and the interrelation between all the elements that make up our world.
Jason Burnham
Tënk's programming coordinator
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