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Filmmaker Melody Gilbert explores a drain pipe with two urban explorers. (Photo by Karl Stoerzinger)
Shooting a documentary in a sewer
December 5, 2007
From an abandoned mental institution in Scotland to the sewer system of St. Paul, filmmaker Melody Gilbert explores the hobby of urban exploration.
St. Paul, Minn. — The Current's Mary Lucia talks to Twin Cities filmmaker Melody Gilbert about her documentary "Urban Explorers: Into the Darkness."
The film follows a number of urban explorers, people who are drawn to the unseen or off-limits parts of human civilization.
Gilbert spent three years following urban explorers around the globe, from the catacombs in Paris to secret government sites in the United States.
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