Synopsis
Director Jeremy Workman, whose Lily Topples The World won the Grand Jury Prize at SXSW 2021, delivers a poignant exploration of a group of artists who discovered their purpose within the most commercial and improbable places. That’s right: a shopping mall. In 2003, a group of artists in Rhode Island snuck inside the thriving Providence Place Mall and for the next four years lived in a hidden art space that they created on the sly. A big F-U to gentrification, the project evolved out of an impromptu dare into a triumphantly symbolic act, one that the artists documented themselves on lo-rez video. No surprise, the film was a hit at this year’s SXSW.