Architecture & Design Film Festival 09 / 24-27 / 2009 A benifit fot Yestermorrow Design / Build School Mad River Valley, VT |
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Downside Up
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| Year: | 2003 |
| Length: | 56 min. |
| Directors: | Nancy Kelly |
| Series: | Change Happens |
| Showtimes: | 9/24/2009 @ 8:00 PM 9/26/2009 @ 5:30 PM |
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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.