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B/Side is a poignant and intelligent exploration of the urban homeless, combining sensitive footage of their exterior situation and entering imaginatively into interior deliriums. Framed by footage of the encampment locally known as Dinkinsville on New York’s Lower East Side, where some of the homless settled on 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. Applying rhythmic construction, poetic licence and a generous eye to bodies in poverty, B/Side documents beautifully a gritty vision of late 20th century urban life.