Secret Mall Apartment

Local title
Salajane korter kaubanduskeskuses
Director
Jeremy Workman
Country
Year
2024
Festival
Kumu Dokumentaal 2026
Programme
Subject

The story of a group of pioneering artists creating a home in the most unlikely of places, a mall.

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 sneaked in furniture, tapped into the mall’s electricity, and even secretly constructed a brick wall with a locking door, smuggling in over two tons of cinder block. Far more than just a wild prank, the secret apartment became a deeply meaningful place for all of its inhabitants: a personal expression of defiance against local gentrification, a boundary-pushing work of public/private art, a clubhouse to coordinate their artistic charity, and finally a 750-square-foot space that stuck it to the man.

Director
Jeremy Workman
Producer
Matthew Spain, Jeremy Workman
Cinematographer
Dan Kennedy, Michael Lisnet, Jeremy Workman
Editing
Paul Murphy, Jeremy Workman
Music
Clare Manchon, Olivier Manchon
Production
Wheelhouse Creative, Wrong Turn Productions
Runtime
Language

Screenings

Kumu auditoorium KUMU
ScreeningSalajane korter kaubanduskeskuses
Trailer