VIA PRESS RELEASE | Documentary features Nick Cave, James Turrell, Laurie Anderson, and David Byrne. Original music and soundtrack features John Stirratt of Wilco, with songs by Talking Heads, Sharon Jones, Big Thief, Wilco, Moses Sumney among others
The captivating new documentary Museum Town from former MASS MoCA director of development Jennifer Trainer, tells the story of a unique museum, the small town it calls home, and the great risk, hope, and power of art to transform a desolate post-industrial city. In 2017, MASS MoCA became the largest museum for contemporary art in the world—but just three decades before, its vast brick buildings were the abandoned relics of a massive shuttered factory. How did such a wildly improbable transformation come to be?
MASS MoCA is a testament to tenacity and imagination, Museum Town traces the remarkable story of how a small rural Massachusetts town went from economic collapse to art mecca. Threaded with interviews of a diverse cast—a tattooed curator, a fabricator, former factory worker, and shopkeepers—the film also looks at the artistic process itself, tracking the work and ideas of celebrated artist Nick Cave as he creates his groundbreaking installation at MASS MoCA, UNTIL.
Museum Town captures the meeting of small-town USA and the global art world as it tells a tale that is, like any great artwork, soulful, thought-provoking and unforgettable. Museum Town will be released by Kino Lorber through Kino Marquee virtual cinemas December 4th, 2020.
