As we’ve blogged previously, Exit Through The Gift Shop is a guerrilla documentary which debuted at Sundance earlier this year. It’s billed as “the world’s first street art disaster movie” and centers on a dude named Banksy, Planet Earth’s most infamous practitioner of politically charged urban art. Judging from the initial trailer we assumed Exit Through The Gift Shop would be a fly on the wall look at how Banksy conceives and executes his work but in a new five minute trailer, the incognito poster boy for the global street art movement offers a slightly different take: “The film’s the story of what happened when this guy tried to make a documentary about me.” he says “But he was actually a lot more interesting than I am so now the film is kind of about him.”
Even if you’re a street art dilettante who thinks Graff is something to plot data on, you’ll be vaguely familiar with Banksy. But the supposed focal point of “Exit Through The Gift Shop” an affable Frenchman named Thierry Guetta you might not know. Basically he’s a French filmmaker currently living in Los Angeles who also produces art under the Mr. Brainwash moniker. He always carries his video camera with him and lucked into meeting the largely anonymous UK artists who would later become the subject of his film (sort of). Confused? Yep, so are we but the film is sure to be as captivating as it is incendiary. Check out the extended trailer below…
