The doc “Exit Through The Gift Shop” is the incredible true story of how the world’s greatest Street Art movie was never made. It follows an eccentric French shop keeper and amateur film maker as they attempt to locate and befriend Banksy - a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from post-hurricane New Orleans to the separation barrier on the Palestinian West Bank - whom has fiercely guarded his anonymity to avoid prosecution and resisted all attempts to be captured on film, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner with spectacular results.
Billed as ‘the world’s first street art disaster movie’ the film contains exclusive footage of Banksy, Shephard Fairey, Invader and many of the world’s most infamous graffiti artists at work on walls and in interview. As Banksy describes it, “It’s basically the story of how one man set out to film the un-filmable. And failed”.
View the trailer here and check it out on the big screen at the Yonge & Dundas AMC theatre May 7th.
I’ll see you in line.
S.™
Tags: banksy, documentary, grafitti, invader, sheppard fairey, street art
