Too bad Banksy’s film did not get an Awards at the oscar
Having baptised the film himself “the world’s first street art disaster movie”, the debut film by the notorious street artist Banksy Exit Through The Gift Shop runs for the Oscar nomination of best documentary this Sunday, following premieres last year at the Sundance Film Festival and through a graffited tunnel in a brick vault beneath Waterloo Station, London. The film maps out a amateur French film-maker Thierry Guetta’s quest to reveal the secretive world of street art internationally trailing major players such as his cousin Space Invader, Shepard Fairey, André and Banksy. Once Bristol’s underground rebel teenager in the nineties, Banksy is now a cult figure within the street art movement, having visually invaded the most political wall of all, the Palestinian West Bank. As Banksy turns the camera on Guetta, anarchic satire fuels the film as reality blurs into a bizarre hybrid. Text Sophie Pinchetti