Cicada Cinema: Secret Mall Apartment
Location
505 West 4th St. Bloomington, IN
Secret Mall Apartment
2024 • US • 91 minutes • dir. Jeremy Workman
Sunday, July 13th at FAR Center for Contemporary Art (505 W 4th St)
$8 dollars | All Ages
Showtime: 6pm
Post-film video Q&A with artists Michael Townsend and Leah Smith!
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Synopsis: 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!