Remember when you were a kid and dreamt of living in a candy store? Well, in 2003, a group of artists in Providence, Rhode Island, turned this idea into a game that went way further than any of them could have imagined. From executive producer Jesse Eisenberg and director Jeremy Workman (Lilly Topples the World, FFF 2021 and Magical Universe, FFF 2013) we follow artist Michael Townsend and his subversive friends, who literally find a way to build an apartment inside a mall and live there for four years without anyone noticing.

Far more than just a wild prank, the secret apartment became a deeply meaningful place for all its inhabitants—a personal expression of defiance against local gentrification, a boundary-pushing work of public/private art, a clubhouse to coordinate their artistic charity, and finally, a 750-square-foot space that sticks it to the man. Endlessly fascinating and terrifically entertaining, it’s worth the price of admission just to see the cat and mouse chess match between the artists and mall security guards!