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Rarely does a film from the prestigious Ventnor Library contain an absence of credit towards the title of director.
Instead of this direct knowledge of whose name can be cleared of certainty as to the assembling of what must be the only documentary filmed of street art and street artists, the attachment towards responsibility seems to point towards the notorious ‘Banksy’ or even the French film-maker Thierry Guetta.
Rare talent and humour
Having lived within the reality of Hackney in East London for several years, the astute work of Banksy was always indisputably fuelled by rare talent and humour.
Stencilled art appeared across the East End on areas that were deprived of real and affective art.
Instead, Banksy provided graphic style humour in every appearance of his work throughout the nineties.
Following street artists
‘Exit Through The Gift Shop’ is a well filmed attempt to follow some of the work of street artists by Thierry Guetta and his attempt to bag an experience of the anonymous and immensely addictive work of Banksy, an artist who has remained effectively anonymous ever since.
The documentary works on two levels, the first being an accurate portrayal of showing the inspiration that grows from a form of expression that is not unimaginative graffiti, but an expressive movement from the streets.
Banksy’s talent captured on film
The second level seems to be that it is a joyous opportunity to see some of the brilliance of Banksy’s talent captured on dvd film.
Yet the film’s subject matter does change well enough to introduce Thierry Guetta, an obsessively dedicated filmmaker as the man who manages to become an artist after spending vast amounts of time and resources documenting everything possible.
‘Exit Through The Gift Shop’ is a seriously dedicated and extremely well presented demonstration of how eventually street art became accepted by the mainstream, but more importantly shows the effect of longevity that Banksy’s work captures.
