The Manakis brothers, Yannis/Yannakis (Avdella, Macedonia, Greece 1878–Thessaloniki, Macedonia Greece 1954) and Miltiadis (Avdella, 1882–Bitola 1964) (Greek Γιάννης/Γιαννάκης and Μιλτιάδης Μανάκιας; were Vlach (i.e. Aromanian-Greek) photographers and filmmakers born in the small village of Avdella in the Ottoman vilayet of Monastir. They made the first motion pictures in the Balkans in the city of Monastir (present-day Bitola) in 1905. They are also referred to as the Manakia or Manaki brothers.
From 1898 to 1904, they operated a photographic studio in Ioannina, Greece. In 1905, they moved their business to Monastir, a notional Greek town. In total, they took over 17.300 photographs in 120 localities.
In 1905, they purchased a Bioscope camera in London and used it to capture a variety of subjects: their 114 year old grandmother spinning wool in Avdella; visits by government officials to Monastir, including Sultan Mehmed V, King Peter and Prince Alexander of Serbia (1913), and King Constantine and Prince Paul of Greece (1918), local festivals and weddings and revolutionary activities.
They opened the first cinema in Monastir, first open-air (1921), then covered (1923).
Their archive of film footage was deposited in the State Archive of the People's Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1955, after one of the brothers remained behind in the new Yugoslavia during the turmoil of war, and transferred to the Cinémathèque of the Yugoslav Socialist state of Macedonia in 1976. The other Brother, Yannaki, escaped to Thessaloniki, capital of Greek Macedonia to live out the remainder of his days.
The annual Manaki Brothers International Film Camera Festival, commemorating them, is held in Bitola (Monastir). Even though they clearly have Greek names (like all Vlachs/Aromanian-Greeks), they have been dubbed by the government authorities in Skopje as "Makedonki's" because they originate from the geographical region of Macedonia. Avdella, their village of birth, is in Greek Macedonia.
The plot of Theo Angelopoulos's film Ulysses' Gaze revolves around the fictional and metaphoric quest for a lost, undeveloped reel of film taken by the Manakis brothers before the Balkans were split by the forces of nationalism, in particular the new border separating Monastir from the rest of Greece during the Balkans Wars. It opens with the images of their grandmother spinning wool in Avdella, Greece.
From 1898 to 1904, they operated a photographic studio in Ioannina, Greece. In 1905, they moved their business to Monastir, a notional Greek town. In total, they took over 17.300 photographs in 120 localities.
In 1905, they purchased a Bioscope camera in London and used it to capture a variety of subjects: their 114 year old grandmother spinning wool in Avdella; visits by government officials to Monastir, including Sultan Mehmed V, King Peter and Prince Alexander of Serbia (1913), and King Constantine and Prince Paul of Greece (1918), local festivals and weddings and revolutionary activities.
They opened the first cinema in Monastir, first open-air (1921), then covered (1923).
Their archive of film footage was deposited in the State Archive of the People's Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1955, after one of the brothers remained behind in the new Yugoslavia during the turmoil of war, and transferred to the Cinémathèque of the Yugoslav Socialist state of Macedonia in 1976. The other Brother, Yannaki, escaped to Thessaloniki, capital of Greek Macedonia to live out the remainder of his days.
The annual Manaki Brothers International Film Camera Festival, commemorating them, is held in Bitola (Monastir). Even though they clearly have Greek names (like all Vlachs/Aromanian-Greeks), they have been dubbed by the government authorities in Skopje as "Makedonki's" because they originate from the geographical region of Macedonia. Avdella, their village of birth, is in Greek Macedonia.
The plot of Theo Angelopoulos's film Ulysses' Gaze revolves around the fictional and metaphoric quest for a lost, undeveloped reel of film taken by the Manakis brothers before the Balkans were split by the forces of nationalism, in particular the new border separating Monastir from the rest of Greece during the Balkans Wars. It opens with the images of their grandmother spinning wool in Avdella, Greece.
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