Secret Mall Apartment is an American documentary film directed by filmmaker Jeremy Workman that recounts the story of a group of young Rhode Islanders who built a secret apartment inside the bustling Providence Place shopping mall in Providence, Rhode Island in 2003, living there for four years until getting caught and charged with trespassing in 2007.
[1][2][3] The group filmed much of their activity in the secret apartment with inexpensive Pentax Optio cameras that they purchased at the mall's RadioShack and concealed in Altoids tins.
The film tells the incredible true story of eight Rhode Islanders who built and lived in a secret apartment inside their busy local mall from 2003 to 2007.
[25] Coleman Spilde of The Daily Beast stated that "director Jeremy Workman sews together a larger narrative that, at times, becomes unexpectedly moving."
Like any fascinating meditation on the meaning of art and its potential as a political force, Workman’s doc asks more questions than it answers, which is a very good thing.