The salt mines, film by Carlos Aparicio & Susana Aikin
Type
Label
The salt mines, film by Carlos Aparicio & Susana Aikin
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Main title
The salt mines
Medium
electronic resource
Oclc number
849672548
Responsibility statement
film by Carlos Aparicio & Susana Aikin
Runtime
45
Summary
The Salt Mines documents the lives of Sara, Gigi and Giovanna, three Latino transvestites who for years lived on the streets of Manhattan and supported their drug addictions through prostitution. They formed temporary homes inside broken garbage trucks kept next to the salt deposits used in the winter to melt the snow. The three friends share their makeshift home, "The Salt Mines," with a varied community of homeless people. Candid interviews raise issues of sexual identity, personal history and dreams. We follow their lives day and night until their community is closed and sealed by the city, forcing everyone to disperse into uncertain futures
Technique
live action
Subject
- Documentary films
- Male prostitutes -- New York Metropolitan Area -- Interviews
- Drug addicts -- New York Metropolitan Area -- Interviews
- Hispanic American gays -- New York Metropolitan Area -- Interviews
- Nonfiction films
- Homeless persons -- New York Metropolitan Area -- Interviews
- Transvestites -- New York Metropolitan Area -- Interviews
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Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Contributor3
- Genre2
- Subject7
- Documentary films
- Male prostitutes -- New York Metropolitan Area -- Interviews
- Drug addicts -- New York Metropolitan Area -- Interviews
- Hispanic American gays -- New York Metropolitan Area -- Interviews
- Nonfiction films
- Homeless persons -- New York Metropolitan Area -- Interviews
- Transvestites -- New York Metropolitan Area -- Interviews
- Mapped to1