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Short silent documentary film from the Balkans, 1905
The Weavers
[1] or Grandmother Despina is a short
silent,
black and white
documentary film made in 1905 by the
Balkan film pioneers the
Manaki brothers in the small
Aromanian village of
Avdella (
Aromanian: Avdhela), in the
Ottoman
vilayet of Monastir presently modern Greece. It is about 60 seconds long and depicts the Manakis' aunts and 114-year-old grandmother Despina
spinning and
weaving.
[2]
[3]
[4] It was originally called "Our 114-year-old grandmother at work weaving", but has come to be known as The Weavers.
[5]
It is believed to be the first film shot anywhere in the Ottoman Balkans.
[6]
The film was shot with
35 mm film with an
Urban Bioscope
movie camera (serial number 300) imported from
London.
[6]
Appropriation
An extract from the film appears at the beginning of
Theo Angelopoulos's 1995 film
Ulysses' Gaze.
References
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^
Cinema and Classical Texts: Apollo's New Light, Martin M. Winkler, Cambridge University Press, 2009,
ISBN
0521518601, p. 71.
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^ Zacharia, p. 323
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^
Balkan border crossings: First annual of the Konitsa Summer School, Vasilēs G. Nitsiakos, LIT Verlag Münster, 2008,
ISBN
3825809188, pp. 41–42.
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^
Hellenisms: culture, identity, and ethnicity from antiquity to modernity, Katerina Zacharia, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2008,
ISBN
0754665259, p. 323.
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^
Filmland Griechenland – Terra incognita: griechische, Elene Psoma, Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH, 2008,
ISBN
3832516182, S. 23. (Ger.)
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a
b
Vecer Online – One century of the Macedonian seventh art. (Mk.)
Bibliography
- Greece in modern times: an annotated bibliography of works published in English in twenty-two academic disciplines during the twentieth century, 1:109
- Katerina Zacharia, "'Reel' Hellenisms: Perceptions of Greece in Greek Cinema" in Katerina Zacharia, Hellenisms, p. 323
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