Secret Mall Apartment - sold out

Mon 8.9. 19.30 - 22.00, Teatteri Sirkus Suosalo Tent - Alli Trygg Park

Nordic premiere

2025, USA
Jeremy Workman
1h 31min
Themes: Millennial/Gen X nostalgia, anarchy, capitalism, art
Subtitled in English
Allowed for over 7s

This new documentary, which became a festival hit in the US and grossed a million dollars at the box office, is the opening film of the Karhupuisto Film Festival. At the turn of the millennium, a group of East Coast artists grew frustrated with how commercial spaces were taking over cities. They decided to secretly build an apartment in a shopping mall, where they lived from 2003-2007. Directed by Jeremy Workman and produced by Jesse Eisenberg, the documentary is full of good-natured anarchy and early millennium nostalgia. The Washington Post described the film as "unexpectedly inspirational". Jimmy Fallon joined the praise: "it’s unlike anything I’ve ever seen.”