CinemaOSMovie · 2002 · 0h 56m · NR

Downside Up

How art can change the spirit of a place

90%(1)IMDbDocumentary

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.

Directed byNancy Kelly

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Status
Released
Runtime
0h 56m
Language
EN
Released
March 8, 2002
Studios
Kelly+Yamamoto Productions

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Directed by
Nancy Kelly
Written by
Nancy Kelly
Produced by
Nancy Kelly
Kenji Yamamoto

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