Μάτσι ίζι - Matsi Izi

This film is edited together from a roll of 8mm film i found in my mothers archive.


Special thanks to my mother who filmed this, sometime in the 70s.

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[anasnika]

zaltsa e???

alla prin polla polla xronia !!mprova gia to video para polu kalo alitheia!!

[lykorneo]

etsi,,,na 8ymountai oi palioi k na ma8ainoun oi neoi..

[Guildenrich]

Why did you name the video "Matsi i zi" - in arvanitika "The Black Cat"?

[filliostamou]

para para poly wraio...bravo re....

[BeratLA]

He is probably the happiest man on earth!

[BeratLA]

Awasome video. Very touching and good choice of music too.

Yet, I want to add that Arvanites will always be in our hearts, as they are part of our brotherly love. A love which is choked by the modern politics.

ps. Did your uncle ever returned in Livadia?

[kingbardhuli]

In my profile is just a poem that with simple words would be: Fatherland is called the land Where my head have falled Where i loved mother and father Where i am recognized even from the rocks Where i had my home Where i found God Grand grandfathers where have been And the graves that thay left Where i grew up with bread crumbs Where i spoke my language Where i have family and relatives Where i have laughed, where i have cried Where i live with joy and hope Where i would like to die

[kingbardhuli]

My videos are Arvanite songs that i wanted to publish in here, for the rest of the people who wants to listern to them.

They are in Arvanite language with Latin alphabet for two simple reasons.

1- I dont know to write in Greek alphabet.

2- I want the Albanians to be able to understand some of the words that are not in Arvanite language but in Greek (i dont understand them too) but it would be easier to pronounce for the ones that would like to sing them or what ever like that.

[kingbardhuli]

.....and all the peoples in there spoke the same language, he said he didnt want to go anywhere else because he felt home in there. He said, a month after he was in there he got invited in an Arvanite wedding and he was surprised to hear the songs and the dances............

And all of us was just hearing like he was telling us some legends from the anticity.

From that moment i was always interested about Arvanites, i read a lot, and even have contacts with a lot of Arvanites...

[kingbardhuli]

Its not like that.

The Albanian politice is f...ed up, and except money they dont want to know about nothing.

The connection is from us, the simple people that feel it. We feel it that Arvanites call the bread "BUK" and the watter "UJ" and that is enough for us to feel connected.

Like i said, lets not involve the politic in here and lets just enjoy the friendship of people of the same blood, language and tradition.

Greetings to all Arvanites!