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A year in the life of the gardens created by Lower East Side residents.

Documentary, 1998   Length: 52 minutes   Director: David Evans   Distribution:   David Evans   Walkabout Releasing   240 East 39th St, #12E   New York, NY 10019   E-mail: Ogham2@aol.com Premiere: Friday, July 9, 1999, 10pm, on Thirteen/WNET. (Repeat: Sunday, July 11, 1999, 12 midnight.)

DIRT depicts a year in the life of the gardens created by local people of New York City's Lower East Side on blocks once dominated by drugs, AIDS, and crime. The film shows how many of the gardens are now being lost to re-development. It features a cast of truly memorable characters, including Adam Purple, a garden pioneer and guru of the Purple People of the 1960s; Pablo, a squatter who faithfully tended his garden until the day of eviction; and Normand Vallee, a garden founder who is dying of AIDS. One critic wrote that the film "reveals these rare urban oases while exploring the lives of people existing on the edge of sanity, homelessness and death. DIRT chronicles the bizarre and the beautiful, uniting them all beneath the banner of creation."
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