Exit Through the Gift Shop

Art is such a mystery. What makes art, art?

I love street art, seek it out when traveling, and think it's one of the most pure forms of art left, so this documentary was very interesting to me. However, as I watched it, I found myself thinking, how much better would this have been had it been about Banksy, particularly in those early years when he was doing things like that deeply meaningful West Bank Wall work in Israel, as opposed to Thierry Guetta, Mr.

I just watched Exit Through The Gift Shop. What a great documentary.

This documentary takes you through a whole bunch of events and aspects of the "main character" and you never know what's going to happen next. The end was very unexpected and "plot-twisty"...

Exit Through The Gift Shop is a truly unforgettable "doc". I've been given more recommendations to watch this than any other.

Funny, sharply satiric documentary about the modern art world, especially that of the street/graffiti artists who now command hundreds of thousands for their work. The film started out as a documentary about street artists like Banksy, being made by a very eccentric unknown amateur French film-maker, without much obvious talent.

I thought this was good. Without doubt would a gawk.

Whether or not Exit Through the Gift Shop is an authentic documentary, showcasing real-life events without a hint of fabrication or mockumentary-esque sentiment, I cannot say and I'm not prepared to wrap my brain around the multitude of justifications and possibilities. What I am prepared to do, however, is talk about what a visceral and entertaining experience Exit Through the Gift Shop is, and how its effective use and depiction of street art and the politics of street artists is something that deserves your attention.

In 1999, a man with a camera discovered that a cousin of his was a noteworthy member of a growing movement that would shake the art world to its foundation, make us question what art is and see the world of art change in as radical a way as Warhol and Picasso. He'd document these formative years for almost a decade, becoming the unofficial scribe for the next big wave in art.