In the early ’00s, a group of Rhode Island artists lived in a hidden spot in the bowels of a mall — for four years.
Workman says there was something “so pure” about the stunt Townsend, shown on an escalator, and his friends pulled off during the aughts: “Whether you think it’s dumb or profound, whatever, it’s so ...
A look inside the secret apartment in the middle of Providence Place Mall.Courtesy of Michael Townsend In the early 2000s, artist Michael Townsend spotted an unused corridor inside a Rhode Island mall ...
Secret Mall Apartment both is and isn't about a secret mall apartment. The film makes a charming collective of artists surreptitiously setting up a living space in a mall its hook (and what a helluva ...
Filmmaker Jeremy Workman has a history of documenting obsessive behavior: the guy determined to walk every street of New York City’s five boroughs in The World Before Your Feet, the domino artist ...
During their heyday, malls captivated Hollywood filmmakers. From 1978’s “Dawn of the Dead” and 1982’s “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” through 1991’s “Scenes From a Mall” and 1995’s “Mallrats,” ...
What starts as a lark turns important and thought-provoking when eight artists squat for four years in a Rhode Island Mall. Catch this documentary next week at the Milwaukee Film Festival. This film ...
If you were a young artist in Providence, R.I., in the late 1990s, you hated the new Providence Place mall, a symbol of consumerism and gentrification that went arm-in-arm with new development ...
"Secret Mall Apartment" (L-R) Colin Bliss and Greta Scheing in 2005 in their apartment in Providence Place Mall. (Michael Townsend) In 2003, eight young Rhode Island artists created a secret apartment ...
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