Secret Mall Apartment Screening

The Assembly Theatre is excited to announce that we will be hosting a screening of the highly anticipated documentary, Secret Mall Apartment, on Saturday, January 11th!

Following the screening, we will have a conversation with Director, Jeremy Workman, and lead subject of the film, Michael Townsend. 

SYNOPSIS

In 2003, eight Rhode Island artists created a secret apartment inside the busy Providence Place Mall and lived there for four years, filming everything along the way. They snuck in furniture, tapped into the mall’s electricity, and even constructed a wall, smuggling in more than two tons of cinderblock.

Far more than just a wild prank, the secret apartment became a deeply meaningful place for its inhabitants. It was 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.