Araya

Araya

1h 30m 1959 Documentary France, Venezuela
Budget: - Revenue: -

"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

Writer

Pierre Seghers, Margot Benacerraf