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Secret Mall Apartment

Opens on June 13

Director: Jeremy Workman Run Time: 91 min. Rating: Not Rated Release Year: 2025

Starring: Andrew Oesch, Colin Bliss, Greta Scheing, James J.A. Mercer, Michael Townsend

A special screening will be held on June 17th at 7pm followed by a Q&A with the director Jeremy Workman and producer Matthew Spain.

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!

 

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