Downside Up / ITVS Independent Television Service presents ; written, produced, and directed by Nancy Kelly ; produced in association with the Center for Independent Documentary ; produced in association with ITVS ; co-produced by WMHT Schenectady and the Banff Centre for the Arts ; produced by TPOG Incorporated.

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This film is about America's largest museum of contemporary art, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), which opened in 1999 in an enormous abandoned factory in the film maker's hometown, North Adams, Massachusetts. This first person documentary captures the struggle of the people...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Independent Television Service (Presenter)
TPOG, Inc (Production company)
New Day Films (Film distributor)
Kanopy (Firm) (Film distributor)
Other Authors: Kelly, Nancy (Nancy M.), 1953- (Film director, Film producer, Screenwriter, Narrator, Interviewer)
Language:English
Language and/or Writing System:
In English, with optional English captions.
Published: [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, [2015]
Subjects:
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.
Factories > Remodeling for other use > Massachusetts > North Adams.
Community development, Urban > Massachusetts > North Adams.
Urban renewal > Massachusetts > North Adams > Citizen participation.
Art museums and community > Massachusetts > North Adams.
Art museums > Massachusetts > North Adams.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Documentary television programs.
Nonfiction television programs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Genre:
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Documentary television programs.
Nonfiction television programs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Online Access:
Connect to online resource via Kanopy - MSU authorized users (kanopy)
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 video file (57 min.)) : sound, color with black and white sequences.
Variant Title:
How art can change the spirit of a place
Format: Electronic Video
Description
Summary:
This film is about America's largest museum of contemporary art, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), which opened in 1999 in an enormous abandoned factory in the film maker's hometown, North Adams, Massachusetts. This first person documentary captures the struggle of the people of North Adams in their redefinition of their community and puzzling with their role in an alien form of expression: contemporary art. Told primarily through the eyes of the filmmaker and her family, most of whom worked in the factory before it closed, the film charts the subtle changes in the spirit of a region from the intimate view of the kitchen table. It is about hope--the tentative, dangerous notion of hope in a town that was widely viewed as hopeless.
Note:Originally produced as a documentary film in 2002.
Broadcast as an episode of the PBS television series Independent Lens on February 25, 2003.
Call Number:N627.5 .K45 2015 Online
Credits:Associate producer & editor, Kenji Yamamoto ; directors of photography, Tomas Tucker, Lou Weinert, Mark Lipman ; original score, Miriam Cutler ; researchers, Ann Petrone, Jennifer Pearce.
Participant or Performer:
Narrator/interviewer, Nancy Kelly; interviewees, Bud Crosier, Jim Kelly, John Barrett III, Thomas Krens, Eileen Gloster, Joan Crosier, Joseph Thompson, Jennifer Trainer, Dora Deslile, Ginny Kelly, Kelly Crosier, Eric Rudd, Natalie Jeremijenko, Ethan Zuckerman, Jeff Kleiser, Dick Sabot, Bo Peabody, Ozzie Alvarez, Nancy Fitzpatrick, Colleen Frank, Scott Avery, Jeffrey Bendavid, William C. Ross, Jr., Daniel Weissbrodt.
Source of Description:
Online resource; title from title frames.