A hand-painted, frame-by-frame animated short film illustrating the Mongolian wind burial, a funerary rite in which a corpse is carried on a cart until it falls, and the wind is understood to guide the departed soul upward to Tengri, father heaven. The filmmaker's own page describes Tengri as the Turkic word for the holy blue sky and for the primary deity of nature worshipped by Mongolic and Turkic peoples, naming Shamanism and Animism as the spiritual practices the ritual belongs to. Made as Telengut's graduation film at Concordia University's Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, it screened at the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival and was featured by the Asian Film Archive in Singapore.
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Production
Release Year Country of OriginCanada (Concordia University, Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema) 1 Subject Matter
Religious Subject MatterTengri, the primary sky deity of Tengrism, and the Shamanic wind burial rite that returns a departed soul to him: the filmmaker's own page names both outright as the film's subject. 1 Connections
Associated With
This source names Singapore directly: "featured by the Asian Film Archive in Singapore."
Source Alisi Telengut's Own Official Page for Tengri (2012)
This source names Tengri directly: "to guide the departed soul upward to Tengri, father heaven."
Source Alisi Telengut's Own Official Page for Tengri (2012)
This source names Turkic Peoples directly: "of nature worshipped by Mongolic and Turkic peoples, naming Shamanism and Animism as the spiritual practices the ritual belongs to."
Source Alisi Telengut's Own Official Page for Tengri (2012)
Depicts
The filmmaker's own page for this film names Tengri, the primary sky deity of Tengrism, and the Shamanic wind burial rite outright as its subject, making this the first screen work the atlas holds for the tradition.
Source Alisi Telengut's Own Official Page for Tengri (2012)
Originates in Language
Source The Movie Database (TMDB): Tengri
Sources
1. Alisi Telengut's Own Official Page for Tengri (2012)
Alisi Telengut (filmmaker), with National Screen Institute of Canadaalisitelengut.com/TENGRI-2012; nsi-canada.ca/film/tengriView the Source The Movie Database (TMDB): Tengri
The Movie Database (TMDB)Originates in Language: English, Facts panel: Original LanguageQuote, Originates in Language: English, Facts panel: Original Language
Original Language English
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