{"id":2264,"date":"2010-02-01T07:40:17","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T14:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/02\/exit-through-the-gift-shop\/"},"modified":"2010-02-01T07:40:17","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T14:40:17","slug":"exit-through-the-gift-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/01\/exit-through-the-gift-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"Exit Through The Gift Shop"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The LA Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Banksy’s latest move<\/h1>\n

The underground artist’s film ‘Exit Through the Gift Shop’ is a hot ticket at Sundance. It’s part guerrilla art chronicle and part satire of celebrity, consumerism, the art world and filmmaking.<\/h3>\n

<\/span>By John Horn and Chris Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

The movie doesn’t appear anywhere in the Sundance Film Festival’s catalog. Outside a small circle of ultra-secretive confidantes, nobody knows its director’s identity or whereabouts. And the film’s place in the Sundance schedule wasn’t even announced until last week.<\/p>\n

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That didn’t prevent “Exit Through the Gift Shop,” a film from acclaimed British street artist Banksy, from becoming Park City’s hottest ticket on Sunday night. Outside the 446-seat Library Center Theatre, Banksy fans started queuing up hours before “Gift Shop’s” premiere, in 15-degree weather, even if their chances of getting in were somewhere between slim and none.<\/p>\n

A film-within-a-film that begins as a chronicle of guerrilla art and its most prominent creators but morphs into a sly satire of celebrity, consumerism, the art world and filmmaking itself, “Exit Through the Gift Shop” is a work that’s nearly impossible to categorize. The movie that’s both about — and made by — the controversial and hugely popular artist grapples with a separate series of contradictions about the competing themes of fame and privacy.<\/p>\n

“Trying to make a movie which truly conveys the raw thrill and expressive power of art is very difficult. So I haven’t bothered,” Banksy said in an e-mailed statement. “Instead, this is a simple everyday tale of life, longing and mindless vandalism.”<\/p>\n

[ click to read full article at LATimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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