EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP

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 Exit Through the Gift Shop, the first film by renowned graffiti artist Banksy, became the hottest ticket at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival where it made its world debut. Banksy is 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. Fiercely guarding his anonymity to avoid prosecution, Banksy has so far resisted all attempts to be captured on film. Exit Through the Gift Shop tells the incredible true story of how an eccentric French shop keeper turned documentary maker attempted to locate Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner – with spectacular results. The film contains exclusive footage of Banksy, Shepard Fairey (famous for his Obama poster), 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." --Paranoid Pictures It would be hard to imagine a documentary more prankishly enjoyable. Exit Through the Gift Shop is an exhilarating hall-of-mirrors look at what happens when artists become objects, and the whole what's-sincere-and-what's-a-sham spectacle is more fun than art was ever supposed to be.--Entertainment Weekly “One of the best, most karmically satisfying comedies of the year, much to the chagrin of the people who are in it.” –Boston Globe “That rarest of art documentaries, one that actually leaves viewers with a better sense of the gifted versus the phony.” –Time Out New York