Secret Mall Apartment | movie | 2025 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

In 2003, eight Rhode Islanders created a secret apartment inside a busy mall and lived there for four years, filming eve | dG1fQjlPQ1lPRC1lOXM

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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

00:37used 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

01:05of 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

01:25justification, capitalism, everything being commodified. The apartment was the

01:33side project to the other step. We were like a little elite strike force team of

01:39empathetic artists. It's such a magic thing to take a space from the mall.