The online entertainment and pop culture magazine Vulture praises “Secret Mall Apartment” as “one of the best movies of 2025 (so far)” and guests at the 4:20 and 7:10 screenings at Bantam Cinema & Arts Center this Saturday, May 3, will be treated to a Q&A with director Jeremy Workman.
Tickets for the film and Q&A event are $35. Those tickets and other regular screening tickets are here.
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In 2003, eight young displaced Rhode Island artists 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 two 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, a clubhouse to coordinate their artistic charity, and finally, a 750 square foot space that sticks it to the man.
The film’s executive producer is filmmaker and actor Jesse Eisenberg, known for playing Mark Zuckerberg in “The Social Network,” which drew an Academy Award nomination.
“Secret Mall Apartment” stars Michael Townsend, Colin Bliss, Adriana Valdez-Young, Andrew Oesch, and James J.A. Mercer