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A landmark work of Latin American feminist cinema and the only feature by pioneering documentarian Margot Benacerraf, Araya is a poetic, unsentimental and visually arresting look at life in the late 1950s on Venezuela’s Araya Peninsula, where generations of labourers depended on mining the arid region’s salt pans for their livelihood. As industrial mechanisation threatens to eradicate this way of life, Benacerraf follows the families of three such salineros, capturing the strain of their work amid this breathtaking but harsh landscape.
Despite the film winning the prestigious FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes in 1959, it was 18 years before the film was screened in Venezuela. Its distributors convinced that the country was ‘not ready’ for it. Although embraced by artists and audiences, the film eventually disappeared into a cultural black hole until it was recently rediscovered, remastered and reissued by Milestone Film & Video – and now screens at the ICA as part of Women’s Stories from the Global South (& To Whom They Belong).
This screening is preceded by a curator's introduction by Lorena Pino Montilla.
04:30 pm
Sun, 23 Oct 2022
Cinema 1
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