“B/SIDE shows the other side of Reaganomics. Director Abigail Child combines documentary with fiction and smart wit in a poetic montage to present a complicated and heartfelt portrait of colonialism at home. These events take place only a mile from Wall Street. The public is forced to look, even as the position of the camera changes. Sometimes the camera is the bystander, at other moments it is the perspective of the homeless themselves.” — The Daily, Rotterdam Film Festival
Monday, November 30, 6:00 p.m. | B/SIDE documents the Dinkinsville homeless encampment on New York’s Lower East Side, using poetic montage to combine documentary, fiction, and soundscapes to show the effects of Reaganomics. Preceded by HONOR AND OBEY (1988) by Warren Sonbert. Both films presented on 16mm prints courtesy of the John M. Flaxman Library, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
OFF CENTER is a basement. OFF CENTER is a backyard. OFF CENTER is a place to come hang and experience weird films together in the spirit of DIY filmmaking and the microcinema. Programmed by Michael Wawzenek.
The Film Center is ADA accessible. This presentation will be projected without open captions. The theater is hearing-loop equipped. For accessibility requests, please email filmcenter@saic.edu