Araya

Alicia Pantoja and I just completed a feature for WNSR on Margot Benacerraf.

You can listen to it or download it at newschoolradio.org

Here's the write-up: Alicia Pantoja and Martin Lynch present a feature on the Venezuelan filmmaker Margot Benacerraf, including an interview with the director conducted this past October. Benaceraff’s most famous film, Araya (1959), is a tale of a town off the coast of Venezuela whose inhabitants had been engaging in the same practices of salt mining, a difficult and monotonous labor, for nearly four hundred and fifty years. Her film documents the lives of the Arayans in the period of a day.

Edited and Produced by Alicia Pantoja and Martin Lynch