Workman says there was something “so pure” about the stunt Townsend, shown on an escalator, and his friends pulled off during the aughts: “Whether you think it’s dumb or profound, whatever, it’s so ...

A look inside the secret apartment in the middle of Providence Place Mall.Courtesy of Michael Townsend In the early 2000s, artist Michael Townsend spotted an unused corridor inside a Rhode Island mall ...

PROVIDENCE – The documentary "Secret Mall Apartment," about the apartment a group of artists secretly built deep in the bowels of Providence Place mall, opened in the same place it all started on ...

"Secret Mall Apartment" (L-R) Colin Bliss and Greta Scheing in 2005 in their apartment in Providence Place Mall. (Michael Townsend) In 2003, eight young Rhode Island artists created a secret apartment ...

Secret Mall Apartment both is and isn't about a secret mall apartment. The film makes a charming collective of artists surreptitiously setting up a living space in a mall its hook (and what a helluva ...

PROVIDENCE – "Secret Mall Apartment," about the eponymous apartment built in Providence Place mall, is playing this week at Showcase Cinemas in Providence Place. "Secret Mall Apartment" runs through ...

Eight artists made a secret apartment in Providence Place The story of the apartment, and Providence is now a documentary Screenings have been extended into April PROVIDENCE – Screenings of "Secret ...

A 2007 “breaking news” segment on local TV in Providence, Rhode Island, led with the report that mall police had discovered a secret apartment in the 1.4 million-square-foot indoor, downtown ...

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 ...

If you were a young artist in Providence, R.I., in the late 1990s, you hated the new Providence Place mall, a symbol of consumerism and gentrification that went arm-in-arm with new development ...

Jeremy Workman thought he was being pranked. How else would you react to someone telling you they once secretly lived inside a shopping mall for four years? The documentary filmmaker had been ...