Araya

Name: Araya
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1959-08-31
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 7.0
Cast: José Ignacio Cabrujas, Laurent Terzieff

Criterion Channel

Kino Film Collection

Kanopy (Free)

7.0(31 votes)

1959

1h 30m

Documentary

woman director

Overview

"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.