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 Thomkins Square Park settled after the riots of June 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.
