Grandma Despina

(1905)

★ 4.8 IMDb · 21 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 1905

Runtime: 1 мин

Director: Janaki Manaki, Milton Manaki

Cast: Baba Despina

Plot

This scene is a part of the very first film shot produced by the Manaki Brothers. Despina, the Janaki and Milton Manaki's grandmother, was recorded weaving in one high-angle shot. For no apparent reason, the first shot made in Macedonia, in the Balkans in fact, made by these two cinematography pioneers, contains peculiar symbolics: at the moment when the grandmother Despina spins the weaving wheel, film starts rolling in our country.