Digging Up the Salt Mines: A Film Memoir

By Susana Aikin

DIGGING UP THE SALT MINES is a filmmaking memoir recounting the author?s experience in shooting her first documentary film. In the early 1980?s when New York City swarmed with a diversity of homeless populations, two young filmmakers encounter a community of homeless Latino drag queens living in abandoned garbage trucks by the Hudson River in the so called Salt Mines, an area where the Sanitation Department kept the salt deposits used in winter to melt the snow. The filmmakers set out to shoot a film depicting their lifestyle of drugs, prostitution and community living in a garbage dump, as well as exploring the boundaries of sexual identity and social tolerance.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0988617927
• ISBN13: 9780988617926
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Susanaaikin
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"