Downside up
By: written, produced, and directed by Nancy Kelly ; produced by TPOG Inc. ; produced in association with Center for Independent Documentary ; co-produced by WMHT Schenectady and the Banff Centre for the Arts ; produced in association with ITVS
Contributors: Cutler, Miriam; TPOG, Inc; Center for Independent Documentary; WMHT (Television station : Schenectady, N.Y.); Banff Centre for the Arts; Independent Television Service
Series: ART 323 (NU course); PAD 402  (NU course); PAD 622 (NU course); PAD 631 (NU course)
Publisher: New Day Films
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 56
ISBN-13: 9781574480856
Subjects: Factories; Remodeling for other use; Urban Community development; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
Other titles: How art can change the spirit of a place
Description: 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. It opened in the abandoned Massachusetts factory where director Nancy Kelly's grandparents and parents once worked. The documentary explores whether something as ephemeral as contemporary art can breathe life into a dying city.
Notes: Originally released as a 2002 television program.

Associate producer & editor, Kenji Yamamoto ; directors of photography, Tomas Tucker, Lou Weinert, Mark Lipman ; score, Miriam Cutler.

DVD.