Downside Up (2002)
How art can change the spirit of a place
54 min
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.
- Release date
- March 8, 2002
- Country of origin
- United States
Crew
- Nancy Kelly · Director
- Nancy Kelly · Producer
- Miriam Cutler · Composer
- Mark Lipman · Cinematographer
- Tomas Tucker · Cinematographer
- Lou Weinert · Cinematographer
- Kenji Yamamoto · Editor