Secret Mall Apartment (2025)
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Director: Jeremy Workman Run Time: 91 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2025
Starring: Andrew Oesch, Colin Bliss, Greta Scheing, James J.A. Mercer, Michael Townsend
“Impossibly compelling… Has the tension and fun of a crime caper”
–Paste Magazine
Country: United States
Language: English
About the film:
In 2003, eight young Rhode Islanders created a secret apartment in a hidden space inside the Providence Place Mall and lived in it 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 apartment became a deeply meaningful place for all its inhabitants – a personal expression of defiance against local gentrification, a boundary-pushing work of public/private art, and finally, a 750 square foot space that sticks it to the man!
About the filmmaker:
Jeremy Workman is the director of the documentaries LILY TOPPLES THE WORLD (Discovery), THE WORLD BEFORE YOUR FEET (Greenwich Entertainment / Kino Lorber), MAGICAL UNIVERSE (IFC Films), and DECIDING VOTE (The New Yorker), among others. Jeremy’s documentaries have been released in theaters and on TV and played at prestigious film festivals throughout the world. His 2023 short documentary DECIDING VOTE – about George Michaels’s 1970 tie-breaking vote on New York’s abortion bill – premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and won multiple film festival awards, before being acquired by The New Yorker. It was shortlisted for the 96th Academy Awards in the Documentary Short Film category
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