Exit Through the Gift Shop
The incredible true story of how the world's greatest Street Art movie was never made...

Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)

Documentary | Comedy
DVD, 87 minutes
Rating: 8.1
Country: USA | UK
Director: Banksy
Producer: Holly Cushing | Jaimie D'Cruz | James Gay-Rees | Melody Howse

Personal notes

Banksy
Mister Brainwash
Graffiti
Street art
Subculture
Mural painting and decoration
Artists -- Interviews
Artists -- Biography
Art -- Political aspects
Mural painting and decoration -- 21st century

Plot outline

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. He fiercely guards his anonymity to avoid prosecution. An eccentric French shop keeper turned documentary maker attempts to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner. Includes footage of Banksy, Shepard Fairey, 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."

Cast

  • Rhys Ifans
  • Bansky
  • Thierry Guetta aka Master Brainwash
  • Debora Guetta
  • Space Invader
  • Monsieur André
  • Zeus
  • Shepard Fairey
  • Ron English
  • Swoon
  • Borf
  • Buffmonster
  • Steve Lazarides
  • Wendy Asher
  • Roger Gastman
  • Laurent Nahoum-Vatinet