Secret Mall Apartment Documentary Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis: The official trailer for SECRET MALL APARTMENT, the hilariously unbelievable true story behind the urban legend about a group of friends who created a secret apartment in the busy Providence Place Mall in the early 2000s.
From Executive Producer Jesse Eisenberg and Director Jeremy Workman. WINNER of nine film festival audience and jury awards.
From Executive Producer Jesse Eisenberg and Director Jeremy Workman. WINNER of nine film festival audience and jury awards.
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00:00This is an incredible tale. Artists set up an apartment inside Providence Place
00:05Mall going undetected for years. We all hated the mall when it went up, right?
00:10Nobody wanted that to happen. Shortly after, a developer comes in and says, I'm
00:15gonna knock down your home. I just had this idea. Oh, we should live in the mall.
00:21It seemed like a very absurd fantasy and perhaps a great challenge. When the
00:31mall was being built, I saw a space that I could not figure out what it would be
00:36used for. We went looking for that anomaly in the architecture and we snuck
00:41ourselves in there and we took out our flashlights. There it was. It started the
00:49conversation immediately. We need to develop this underutilized space. There
00:55was a real necessity to build a wall there. It was like 5,000 pounds of
01:00cinder blocks. It's important to emphasize there's this underlying sense
01:04of dread that we're gonna get caught at any time.
01:10Wow.
01:15So what is it? Is it a prank? Is it a work of art? Is it a social experiment? It
01:19was like this alternate universe that's within the real world. It talks about
01:25gentrification, capitalism, everything being commodified. The apartment was the
01:33side project to the other side. We were like a little elite strike force team of
01:39empathetic artists. Such a magic thing to take a space from the mall.