ABSTRACT
In 2002, California documentary filmmaker, Nancy Kelly, produced a film about the postindustrial city where she grew up – North Adams, Massachusetts. The film DownSide Up focuses on the opening of Mass MoCA, the largest museum of contemporary art in the U.S., and its relationship to the re-birth of North Adams. The story is told through the eyes of Kelly, who is visiting from her current home in San Francisco. She tours the city with family members who still live in town, some of whom worked in the defunct Sprague Electric factory that now houses the new museum.
