by Banksy, USA, UK 2010, 87'
| VOICE OVER: Rhys Ifans | SOUND: Jim Carey | |
| EDITING: Chris King, Tom Fulford | MUSIC AND ORIGINAL SCORE SUPERVISOR: Geoff Barrow | |
| PRODUCER: Jaimie D’Cruz | ||
| EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Holly Cushing, James Gay-Rees | ORIGINAL SCORE: Roni Size |
Banksy is world-famous, but nobody knows his real identity. All that’s known is that he was born ca. 35 years ago in Bristol, that he creates his art through guerrilla-style assaults on symbolic locations in cities throughout the world, and that his work, despite his highly critical take on the art world, is desperately sought-after by collectors, including the stars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.
Synopsis
This is the inside story of Street Art - a brutal and revealing account of what happens when fame, money and vandalism collide. Exit Through the Gift Shop follows an eccentric shop-keeper turned amateur filmmaker as he attempts to capture many of the world's most infamous vandals on camera, only to have a British stencil artist named Banksy turn the camcorder back on its owner with wildly unexpected results.
Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from post-hurricane New Orleans to the Palestinian segregation wall in the West Bank. Fiercely guarding his anonymity to avoid prosecution Banksy has so far resisted all attempts to be captured on film.
Exit Through the Gift Shop is one of the most provocative films about art ever made, it is a fascinating study of low-level criminality, comradeship and incompetence. By turns shocking, hilarious and absurd, this is an enthralling modern-day fairytale... with bolt cutters.
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.
The world's first street art disaster movie.
Banksy
Banksy is the pseudonym used by a street artist who, despite being vastly popular and highly sought-after by collectors, insists on strict anonymity. He’s English, and grew up amid the Bristol music scene of the 80s.
His first appearances as a street artist began around 2000, and were immediately characterized by the use of stencils, outlines on walls, on which he splashed colors. The protagonists of his pieces are children, soldiers, policemen and animals--especially monkeys and mice--which became a sort of trademark. His messages are ironic, desecrating: against consumerism, show-biz society, the authorities who consider street artists outlaws.
His first artistic acclaim came in 2006, when Cristina Aguilera bought one of his pieces for 25,000 pounds. His works soon commanded even higher prices: Bombing Middle England was sold for 100,000 pounds.
Today, his every action, whether in museums, on internationally famous shopping streets or amusement spots half the world over, becomes news, eagerly picked up by the media, and his popularity among art collectors keeps growing.