"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. Margot Benacerraf captures in images, the life of the "salineros" and their archaic methods of work before their definite disappearance with the arrival of the industrial exploitation.... (Full plot summary below)
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"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. Margot Benacerraf captures in images, the life of the "salineros" and their archaic methods of work before their definite disappearance with the arrival of the industrial exploitation.
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| Boston PhoenixGerald PearyBe grateful that Araya is here, in an exquisitely restored print, with images of struggling Venezuelan peasants as luminous as the Mexican photographs of Edward Weston. |
| Slant MagazineJoseph Jon LanthierAraya is an artifactual account of human sweat that aims for pithy sympathy but strikes a far more bewitching bull's-eye. |
| Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerIt's a strange, one-of-a-kind film that was to be Benacarraf's only full-length feature. |
| Denver PostLisa KennedyThis expertly restored black-and-white work is a thing of wonder. |
| Village VoiceAndrew SchenkerAnother stunningly photographed document of a singular culture. |
| New York TimesMike HaleWhatever visual poetry the film possesses is overwhelmed by the thuddingly bad and nearly ceaseless narration, written by Ms. Benacerraf and Pierre Seghers. |
| Monsters and CriticsRon WilkinsonA film of the simplest and most complex of working worlds. A wonderful visual poem. |
| Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranThe 1959 film's style is dated, but it is visually glorious and tells a fascinating story. |
| ArtforumAmy TaubinA stunning, strangely liminal movie in form and content. |
| Boxoffice MagazineSara Maria VizcarrondoNot just an artifact of a pre-industrialized culture infiltrated by modern equipment, it's an artifact of perspective and form. |
