Infamous British graf/street artist Banksy vandalizes the silver screen
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Announced via his home page (http://banksy.co); the notorious street artist made an official statement on Thursday, January 21st, that he'd be releasing his own feature film. It's entitled "Exit through the Gift Shop", and was described vaguely on his page as a film having the "mental age " of a 13 year old. To me Banksy is most memorable for his pieces in New Orleans, the "Village Petstore" in NYC, and of course who could forget his pleasant depiction of the Mona Lisa; A firm looking expression of a woman, replaced by a smiley face, in which he took the liberty of hanging himself in The Louvre.
I have quite a fondness of the man's work, he achieves a satirical brilliance that street art has yet to grasp. An anti-hero, a vagrant vagabond misting sarcasm in living color upon the bricks of all corporate cultures. The film debuted at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, and is loosely about a filmmaker attempting to document street art. Upon his filming, he bumps into none other than the rat peddler himself, Banksy. At this point everything goes awry. In Banksy's words, it's "the story of how one man set out to film the unfilmable - and failed".
The trailer doesn't offer much for a gist, just some more displays of it's creators off-brandish humor. I say if you got the shot at catching it somewhere, or if it ever hits Netflix or the major market, don't pass this one up. If the film doesn't promise a laugh, and my suspicions say it will, at least the artwork will take ahold of your optical nerves for 89-minutes.
I have quite a fondness of the man's work, he achieves a satirical brilliance that street art has yet to grasp. An anti-hero, a vagrant vagabond misting sarcasm in living color upon the bricks of all corporate cultures. The film debuted at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, and is loosely about a filmmaker attempting to document street art. Upon his filming, he bumps into none other than the rat peddler himself, Banksy. At this point everything goes awry. In Banksy's words, it's "the story of how one man set out to film the unfilmable - and failed".
The trailer doesn't offer much for a gist, just some more displays of it's creators off-brandish humor. I say if you got the shot at catching it somewhere, or if it ever hits Netflix or the major market, don't pass this one up. If the film doesn't promise a laugh, and my suspicions say it will, at least the artwork will take ahold of your optical nerves for 89-minutes.
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