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“Secret Mall Apartment,” a Protest for Place
Young artists find a new way to resist the impermanence of modernity.
The new documentary Secret Mall Apartment, now in select theaters nationwide, tells the story of eight Providence-based artists who, although they periodically hint at their left-leaning politics, admirably dedicate their time and skills to projects paying tribute to the first-responder firemen who perished on 9/11, the victims of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, and sick children in hospitals. Directed by Jeremy Workman and produced by actor Jesse Eisenberg, the documentary features grainy 2000s cell-phone camera footage of the cast of characters—all artists but also intimate friends—as well as modern-day interviews about their time living in the mall. The same generic mall imposed on Providence, impervious to the organic customs and character of the place, was also detached enough from the human beings who lived there that the building’s authorities didn’t detect a gaggle of them inhabiting the property for four years.
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