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Director: Jeremy Workman
Cast: Michael Townsend, Colin Bliss, Adriana Valdez Young, Andrew Oesch
Get ready for a documentary like no other: Secret Mall Apartment, a new film by auteur Jeremy Workman who is known for choosing subjects that lean heavily towards the eccentric, follows eight Rhode Island youths who, in 2003, built a secret apartment inside a busy mall and lived in it for nearly half a decade. The group filmed the construction of and activities within the apartment over the course of four years, using cheap low-budget cameras that they bought in the mall itself. After 17 years, Workman was able to bring the original eight participants back together to talk about the endeavor and how it evolved from artful prank to urban legend to life-changing experience.