{"id":2394,"date":"2010-04-20T10:08:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T17:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/04\/doc-banksy\/"},"modified":"2010-04-20T10:10:41","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T17:10:41","slug":"doc-banksy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/20\/doc-banksy\/","title":{"rendered":"Doc Banksy"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Village Voice<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Exit Through the Gift Shop<\/em>, Brought To You by Banksy, Sort Of<\/h2>\n

By\u00a0Aaron Hillis<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

A genuinely hip, thought-provoking work of art disguised as a doomed documentary resurrected,\u00a0Exit Through the Gift Shop<\/a><\/em>\u00a0is not just the definitive portrait of street-art counterculture, but also a hilarious expos\u00e9 on the gullibility of the masses who embrace manufactured creative personas. Though it’s credited as a\u00a0Banksy<\/a>\u00a0picture\u2014as in the ever-elusive U.K. graffiti ninja whose puckish, anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian stencils have appeared everywhere from metropolitan billboards worldwide to the\u00a0West Bank<\/a>\u00a0barrier wall\u2014the film ostensibly began with him tapped as its on-camera subject.<\/span><\/p>\n

Banksy’s talking head appears faceless under a dark hood, with his pithy wit digitally masked, to help narrator\u00a0Rhys Ifans<\/a>\u00a0explain how the role reversal occurred. The real “director” of most of the truly fascinating, dangerously obtained footage herein is\u00a0Thierry Guetta<\/a>, an eccentric French expat and family man living in Los Angeles. Guetta’s fanatical devotion to recording every banal moment of his life yielded massive amounts of tape from the early days of the ’90s street art scene\u2014tape that would ultimately become\u00a0Exit<\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>[ click to continue reading at The Village Voice<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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