A small, inexpensive Pentax camera follows a group of artists from Rhode Island as they build a secret apartment in the bowels of Providence Place Mall, where they managed to live undetected by security for four years. On the verge of a joke and an artwork, this project was an urban legend for a long time before documentary filmmaker Jeremy Workman gathered all eight participants to talk about their lives behind the walls of the department store. The documentary serves as a powerful testimony not only to the forms of artistic intervention and acts of resistance, but above all to gentrification, class society, and the significance of megalomaniacal commercial buildings for the city and its inhabitants.

Jeremy Workman / US / 2025 / 91 min. / English language / English subtitles