Araya
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1959
1h 30m
Documentary
"Araya" is an old natural salt mine located in a peninsula in northeastern Venezuela which was still, by 1959, being exploited manually five hundred years after its discovery by the Spanish. In images, the life of the "salineros" and their archaic methods of work before their definite disappearance with the arrival of the industrial exploitation.
Director
Margot Benacerraf
Writers
Pierre Seghers
Margot Benacerraf
Where to Watch
Stream
Criterion Channel
Kino Film Collection
