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Poster for Downside Up

Downside Up

2002

How art can change the spirit of a place

Overview

How does a dying working class town end up betting its future on art? With 80% of its downtown buildings closed, North Adams, Massachusetts united blue-collar locals with art world luminaries to transform economic failure into America's largest center for contemporary art, MASS MoCA. A film by North Adams native Nancy Kelly, DOWNSIDE UP is about the tentative, dangerous notion of hope in a city widely viewed as hopeless.

Details

Status
Released
Release date
March 8, 2002
Original language
English
Spoken languages
English
Director
Nancy Kelly
Budget
Not recorded
Revenue
Not recorded
Downside Up (2002) | Kinocult