
Overview
In 2003, eight Rhode Islanders created a secret apartment inside the busy Providence Place Mall and lived there for four years, filming everything along the way. They snuck in furniture, tapped into the mall’s electricity, and even secretly constructed a brick wall with a locking door, smuggling in over 2 tons of cinderblock. Far more than just a wild prank, the secret mall apartment became an incredibly meaningful act for all the participants, at once an act of defiance against local gentrification, a boundary-pushing work of public/private art, and a 750 square foot space that sticks it to the man. This award-winning documentary, from director Jeremy Workman (THE WORLD BEFORE YOUR FEET) and executive producer Jesse Eisenberg, is a funny, compelling, stranger-than-fiction celebration of creative misadventure and the DIY spirit.
