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Title 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
Published [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (1 video file (57 min.)) : sound, color with black and white sequences
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
Notes Originally produced as a documentary film in 2002
Broadcast as an episode of the PBS television series Independent Lens on February 25, 2003
Credits Associate producer & editor, Kenji Yamamoto ; directors of photography, Tomas Tucker, Lou Weinert, Mark Lipman ; original score, Miriam Cutler ; researchers, Ann Petrone, Jennifer Pearce
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
Notes In English, with optional English captions
Online resource; title from title frames
Subject Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.
SUBJECT Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art fast
Subject 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
Art museums
Art museums and community
Community development, Urban
Factories -- Remodeling for other use
Urban renewal -- Citizen participation
Massachusetts -- North Adams
Genre/Form documentary film.
Documentary films
Documentary television programs
Nonfiction films
Nonfiction television programs
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Documentary television programs.
Nonfiction television programs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Documentaires.
Films autres que de fiction.
Documentaires télévisés.
Émissions télévisées autres que de fiction.
Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.
Form Streaming video
Author Kelly, Nancy (Nancy M.), 1953- film director, film producer, screenwriter, narrator, interviewer.
Independent Television Service, presenter.
TPOG, Inc., production company.
New Day Films, film distributor.
Kanopy (Firm), film distributor.
Other Titles Subtitle from Kanopy website: How art can change the spirit of a place