Sunday, February 20, 2011

Graffiti Turned Big Business

Exit Through the Gift Shop is a film about street artists. Or rather, it’s about a guy who filmed street artists in the early 2000s. Or more specifically, it’s about a guy (Guy 1) who became a street artist after filming other artists and about the guy (Guy 2) that Guy 1 originally filmed but who later made this film about Guy 1 becoming a street artist.

Confused? Guy 2 is calledBanksy, and the film is an ode to a French wannabe filmmaker turned wannabe subversive artist named Thierry Guetta. [READ MORE HERE]

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