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Friday, January 22, 2010

Exit Through The Gift Shop A Banksy Film with Mr Brainwash

Exit Through The Gift Shop will have its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, his agent told the BBC.

It will be the first time the elusive artist, who has never revealed his identity, has spoken on camera.

Billed as "the world's first street art disaster movie", its inclusion in the festival has been shrouded in secrecy.

Sundance organisers are due to announce its inclusion at a press conference on Thursday.

Unexpected stunts

Exit Through The Gift Shop was left off the official programme, but speculation about the festival's Spotlight Surprise turned to Banksy after four stencils, believed to be by the artist, appeared on walls in Park City, where the festival is held.

Banksy is known for teasing his audience, toying with authority, and continually pulling the wool over people's eyes to stage unexpected stunts.

Last year, he installed 100 of his artworks in Bristol's council-owned museum under the noses of top officials, and once smuggled a life-size statue of a Guantanamo Bay detainee into Disneyland.

Exit Through The Gift Shop will have its world premiere at the festival on Sunday.

It is described as the story of how an eccentric French shop keeper turned documentary maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on him.

Infamous artist

Banksy said: "It's the story of how one man set out to film the un-filmable. And failed".

The film contains exclusive footage of Banksy, and many of the world's most infamous graffiti artists at work.

But until the film is shown, it is not known whether Banksy's identity will be revealed.

In the past, the artist has both mythologised and subverted his own image, so the film could raise as many questions as it answers.

John Cooper, director of the Sundance Festival, said the story was so bizarre that he questioned whether it could be real.

"Exit Through The Gift Shop is one of those films that comes along once in a great while, a warped hybrid of reality and self-induced fiction while at the same time a totally entertaining experience," he added.

Exit Through The Gift Shop is due to open in UK cinemas on 5 March.

Find out more at: www.banksyfilm.com

Some of the footage was part of a movie Mr Brainwash was working about Banksy so it will be fun to see what was used.

1 comment:

  1. The Mr Brainwash x Banksy cinematic collaboration, Exit Through the Gift Shop debuted this week at the 2010 International Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. The documentary captures street art like never before, following the artistic process of Banksy, Shepard Fairey, Invader, and Mr Brainwash. The genesis of this film is what pulled MBW into the world of urban art as it all began with him attempting to film the movement only to end up joining it.

    http://www.banksyfilm.com/
    (the trailer)

    "In the late 1990s, a hybrid form of graffiti began appearing in cities around the world. Enlisting stickers, stencils, posters, and sculpture and spread by the burgeoning Internet, it would be labeled “street art” and establish itself as the most significant counterculture movement of a generation. Los Angeles–based filmmaker Terry Guetta set out to record this secretive world in all its thrilling detail. For more than eight years, he traveled with the pack, roaming the streets of America and Europe, the stealthy witness of the world’s most infamous vandals. But after meeting the British stencil artist known only as “Banksy,” things took a bizarre turn.

    Sundance has shown films by unknown artists but never an anonymous one. Banksy turns the tables on the only man who has ever filmed him, creating a remarkable documentary that is part personal journey and part an exposé of the art world with its mind-altering mix of hot air and hype. In the end, Exit Through the Gift Shop is an amazing ride, a cautionary modern fairy tale . . . with bolt cutters."
    -Sundance Film Festival

    This is the decade of Mr Brainwash. The film has already received a load of press, having only been shown for the first time 1/24. This is the film that consummates MBW's metamorphosis from a filmmaker to a street artist, and establishes his career amongst the greats of this generation.

    Banksy comments on the genesis of the film - "Trying to make a movie which truly conveys the raw thrill and expressive power of art is very difficult. So I haven’t bothered. Instead this is a simple everyday tale of life, longing and mindless vandalism."

    -CinqueCollective.Com

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