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.
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- Released
- Production
- Kelly+Yamamoto Productions
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Nancy Kelly · Director, Writer
Tomas Tucker · Cinematographer
Lou Weinert · Cinematographer
Kenji Yamamoto · Editor
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