Where to watch
Stream
- Criterion Channel
- Kino Film Collection
Free / with ads
- Kanopy
- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
About Araya
- Documentary
Synopsis
"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
