Secret Mall Apartment

USA/2024 — directed by Jeremy Workman | 91 min.

In 2003, eight Rhode Island artists created a secret apartment inside the bustling Providence Place Mall and lived there for four years, filming the details of how they snuck in furniture, tapped into electrical lines, and smuggled in tons of cinderblock to construct a wall. More than a prank, the secret apartment became a boundary-pushing work of art, a clubhouse where future projects were imagined, and a personal act of defiance against the city’s gentrification.

Featuring never-before-seen footage and revealing the identities of the participants for the first time, Jeremy Workman and executive producer Jesse Eisenberg deliver a compelling portrait of artists discovering their purpose in the most unlikely of places. 

“A fantastic new documentary… remarkable and outrageous.” —Coleman Spilde, The Daily Beast