Xhanfise Keko
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Xhanfise Keko (27 January 1928 – 22 December 2007), born in Gjirokastër, Albania, was an Albanian film director.
Keko was one of the seven founders of "New Albania" Film Studio (Albanian: Kinostudio "Shqiperia e Re"), present day "Albafilm-Tirana". She was the first female director and directed some 25 different movies between 1952 and 1984 including the 1975 film, Beni Walks by Himself and Tomka and His Friends , both awarded at the Giffoni International Film Festival. Her films were generally targeted toward younger audiences but contemporary critics praise her "sensitive approach to her material, a technical facility outstripping her contemporaries and a highly original voice".[1]
Early life
[edit ]Xhanfise Çipi was born on 27 January 1928, in Gjirokastër.[2] [3]
Career
[edit ]In 1950, Keko was one of six Albanians, including her future husband Endri Keko, sent to study at the Moscow Central Studio for Documentary Film. Her education was focused on film editing.[2] Keko edited 140 films, mostly newsreels and documentaries, in the first seventeen years of her career.[4] She participated in the opening of Kinostudio by handing a pair of scissors to Enver Hoxha.[5]
Keko's directorial debut, Spoiled Mimoza (Mimoza llastica), was made in 1973.[4]
Her son Teodor Keko was born in 1958.[5] Keko retired from filmmaking in 1984.[4] Her husband and son died before her in 1989 and 2002 respectively.[6]
Filmography
[edit ]- Taulanti kërkon një motër (1984)
- Një vonesë e vogël (1982)
- Kur xhirohej një film (1981)
- Partizani i vogël Velo (1980)
- Pas gjurmëve (1978)
- Tomka and His Friends (Albanian: Tomka dhe shokët e tij) (1977)
- Malësorët pas komisarëve (1976)
- Tinguj lufte (1976)
- Beni Walks by Himself (Albanian: Beni Ecën Vetë) (1975)
- Për popullin, me popullin (1975)
- Reportazh nga Tropoja (1975)
- Qyteti më i ri në botë (1974)
- Mimoza llastica (1973)
- Kongresi i 6 PPSH (1972)
- Kryengritje në pallat (1972)
- Shkolla tingujt ngjyra (1972)
- ABC...ZH (1971)
- Nga festivali artistik i fëmijve (1969)
- Kalitemi nepërmjet aksioneve (1968)
- Lart flamujt e aksioneve (1968)
- Ato çajnë përpara (1967)
- Gra heroike shqiptare përpara (1967)
- Miqësi e madhe unitet luftarak (1966)
- Tregim për njerzit e punës (1963)
- Kongresi i 3 i PPSH (1952)
References
[edit ]- ^ "Xhanfize Keko | Filmmaker Profile". TCM PRESENTS WOMEN MAKE FILM. Retrieved 2021年12月27日.
- ^ a b Williams 2020, p. 57.
- ^ "When Shooting A Film". Giffoni Film Festival . Archived from the original on 26 September 2024.
- ^ a b c Williams 2015, p. 15.
- ^ a b Williams 2020, p. 58.
- ^ Williams 2020, p. 61.
Works cited
[edit ]- Williams, Bruce (2020). "Cinema in the 'local perfect position': children and education in the documentary work of Xhanfise Keko". Studies in Eastern European Cinema. 11 (1). Taylor & Francis: 54–66.
- Williams, Bruce (2015). "It's a wonderful job: women at work in the cinema of communist Albania". Studies in Eastern European Cinema. 6 (1). Taylor & Francis: 4–20.
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