B/Side
‘B/side’ is an experiment in entering imaginatively the delirium of the Lower East Side. Framed by footage of the encampment locally known as Dinkinsville, where some of the homeless of Thompkins Square Park settled after the riots of 1991. The movie begins with the encampment's first night and ends with the fire and subsequent destruction of the lot in October of the same year. The focus is on a female figure who is situated within the flux of economic upheaval and physical displacement. The film interrupts the streets of today with the past, so that eventually the fragments and violence in her mind come to mirror the external decay. Applying rhythmic construction, poetic license and a generous eye to bodies in poverty, ‘B/side’ documents poignantly and beautifully a gritty vision of late 20th century urban life.
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