Venezuelan Film "Araya" to the Screened on November 12, 2010
Winner of the 1959 Critics' Prize at Cannes
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From the film "Araya" (Venezuela, 1959, 90 minutes, b/w, directed by Margot Benacerraf)
ALBANY, NY (10/28/2010)(readMedia)-- "Araya" (Venezuela, 1959, 90 minutes, b/w, in Spanish with English subtitles, directed by Margot Benacerraf) will be shown on Friday, November 12 at 7:30 p.m. in Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue, on the University at Albany's downtown campus. Sponsored by the New York State Writers Institute, the screening is free and open to the public.
A stunningly photographed "documentary tone poem," "Araya" presents a day in the life of peasants who eke out a desperate existence harvesting salt on a remote Venezuelan peninsula. Recently rediscovered and restored, the film shared the 1959 Critics' Prize at Cannes with "Hiroshima Mon Amour". In 2010, Roger Ebert called it, "astonishing… so beautiful, so horrifying."
For additional information contact the Writers Institute at 518-442-5620 or online at http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst.
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