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 ...

“Secret Mall Apartment” delivers on its title. In this straightforward documentary of a wild-eyed tale of transgression and transcendence, a group of art students burrow into the concrete bowels of ...

A group of artists turned a hidden shopping center nook into a clandestine home: "At that time, I had a copy of Dwell and I was like, How do we make this something livable and desirable?" I first ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: In 2024, a homeless woman in Midland, Michigan was found living in the space behind a sign on a supermarket roof for a year, and asked to leave after someone spotted a ...

During their heyday, malls captivated Hollywood filmmakers. From 1978’s “Dawn of the Dead” and 1982’s “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” through 1991’s “Scenes From a Mall” and 1995’s “Mallrats,” ...

Filmmaker Jeremy Workman has a history of documenting obsessive behavior: the guy determined to walk every street of New York City’s five boroughs in The World Before Your Feet, the domino artist ...

"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 ...

Puccini’s struggling poets and dreamers had their Parisian Latin Quarter in “La Bohème,” which begat “Rent” a century later, with its Lower East Side New York squatters singing of pricey, boutique ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...