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The Projection Booth Podcast

Special Report: Jennifer Trainer on Museum Town (2019)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8686 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Mike talks to Jennifer Trainer, director of the 2019 documentary Museum Town, a look at how a contemporary art museum saved a former mill town.

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0:00.0

You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast.

0:09.2

Hold your ears, folks. It's showtime. People pay good money to see this movie. When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.

0:21.9

Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.

0:24.8

Turn it off.

0:30.1

Turn it off.

0:36.1

Hey, Andrew!

0:36.9

Yeah! Do you remember when you first heard about the idea for Massimoka and what you thought about it?

0:55.0

I'm thinking, like everybody else, what is contemporary art?

1:00.0

And then when I saw a little bit of it, I thought, oh my God, what is that stuff?

1:06.0

People in North Adams are not ready for this.

1:16.6

North Adams, Massachusetts.

1:18.8

Once bustling and prosperous,

1:21.9

its main street now is virtually empty.

1:24.1

All of a sudden, Tom came in with this great idea,

1:26.3

but this great idea was totally antithetical to what this town was.

1:28.0

An art museum?

1:29.2

A modern art museum?

1:31.3

What's that?

1:32.5

I feel that it is a waste of money.

1:35.7

The fundamental message that we put on the table

1:37.8

was that art museums were the 18th century idea

1:40.4

in the 19th century box.

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