Using a small, inexpensive Pentax camera, we follow a group of artists from Rhode Island who secretly built an apartment in the middle of a shopping mall in Providence and lived there for four years without security noticing. The project balanced on the edge between prank and artistic work and circulated as an urban legend for a long time—until documentarian Jeremy Workman decided to bring together all eight participants to talk about their life behind the walls of the shopping center. The result is a film that is not only a powerful statement about artistic interventions and forms of civil resistance, but primarily a commentary on gentrification, class differences, and the role of megalomaniac shopping centers in the life of the city and its inhabitants.

Jeremy Workman / US / 2025 / 91 min. / English / English subtitles

After the screening, an online discussion with the film’s director will follow.