So, what are you hoping to see this month? Whether you’re seeking a 420-friendly road movie, body horror with a fairy tale twist, based-on-a-true-story exorcisms, or romantic comedies with green cards and gay couples, there’s bound to be a Don’t-Miss Indie in this April edition… two of which will be featured in Film Independent Presents screenings on April 2 and 15 – will we see you there?
Secret Mall Apartment
When You Can Watch: April 2 (Film Independent Presents)
Where You Can Watch: Film Independent Theater, Theaters (limited)
Director: Jeremy Workman
Cast: Michael Townsend, Colin Bliss, Adriana Valdez-Young
Why We’re Excited: “Let’s all live at the mall” is the tagline of this documentary about eight artists who did just that – for four years. As Providence, Rhode Island’s historic mill district was getting a facelift in the early 2000s, art spaces were getting ousted in favor of shopping centers and power plants.
Secret Mall Apartment
When You Can Watch: April 2 (Film Independent Presents)
Where You Can Watch: Film Independent Theater, Theaters (limited)
Director: Jeremy Workman
Cast: Michael Townsend, Colin Bliss, Adriana Valdez-Young
Why We’re Excited: “Let’s all live at the mall” is the tagline of this documentary about eight artists who did just that – for four years. As Providence, Rhode Island’s historic mill district was getting a facelift in the early 2000s, art spaces were getting ousted in favor of shopping centers and power plants.
- 4/2/2025
- by Cortney Matz
- Film Independent News & More
“A Real Pain,” writer/director/actor Jesse Eisenberg isn’t just campaigning for an Oscar: Eisenberg is also readying the theatrical release of his documentary, “Secret Mall Apartment.”
Eisenberg executive produces the festival favorite feature, which is directed by Jeremy Workman (“Lily Topples The World”). This is Eisenberg’s second collaboration with Workman after executive producing Workman’s 2018 documentary “The World Before Your Feet.”
“Secret Mall Apartment” tells the story of eight Rhode Island artists who created a secret apartment inside the busy Providence Place Mall in 2003. The group lived there for four years and filmed (almost) everything along the way.
As the official synopsis teases, the secret apartment became a “personal expression of defiance against local gentrification, a boundary-pushing work of public/private art, a clubhouse in which large-scale charitable art projects were planned, and, finally, a 750 square-foot ‘F you’ to The Man.”
In other words, it was about more than just squatting.
Eisenberg executive produces the festival favorite feature, which is directed by Jeremy Workman (“Lily Topples The World”). This is Eisenberg’s second collaboration with Workman after executive producing Workman’s 2018 documentary “The World Before Your Feet.”
“Secret Mall Apartment” tells the story of eight Rhode Island artists who created a secret apartment inside the busy Providence Place Mall in 2003. The group lived there for four years and filmed (almost) everything along the way.
As the official synopsis teases, the secret apartment became a “personal expression of defiance against local gentrification, a boundary-pushing work of public/private art, a clubhouse in which large-scale charitable art projects were planned, and, finally, a 750 square-foot ‘F you’ to The Man.”
In other words, it was about more than just squatting.
- 2/18/2025
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
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