Name: ARAYA (1959) on 35mm
Start: 2023-01-27T19:00:00-06:00
End: 2023-01-27T21:30:00-06:00
Location: Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University

ARAYA (1959) on 35mm

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A landmark of Latin American cinema, Margot Benacerraf's ARAYA depicts the life and work of workers in the salt marshes of Venezuela.

Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University

Friday, January 27 - 7 PMARAYA(Margot Benacerraf, 1959, 90 min, 35 mm)A landmark of Latin American cinema, ARAYA (1959) is Margot Benacerraf’s brilliant nonfiction tone-poem of the life and work of the traditional salineros (salt workers) of the Araya peninsula, a region off the northeast coast of Venezuela known for its natural salt marshes. ARAYA lyricizes the daily toil and timeless gestures of a community whose workers follow traditional methods deeply interconnected with an environment of endless sea and blazing sun. The two-person crew of Benacerraf and cameraman Giuseppe Nisoli captured this visually enthralling portrait of the rhythms of daily life just before introduction of industrial machinery transformed a practice of land subsistence that had stayed the same for nearly 500 years.Credited as a predecessor to feminist cinema in South America and the launch of New Latin Cinema, ARAYA is a hybrid nonfiction classic of lasting importance and spectacular beauty. Presented as a 35 mm print courtesy of Milestone Films.

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ARAYA (1959) on 35mm

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