Banksy's 2010 Exit Through the Gift Shop is a must see art documentary

I don't really know what it is about pop culture, the art of Andy Warhol, Jean Michel Basquiat, Roy Lichtenstein, the music of the Ramones and the spirit of 1977 in NYC that gives me a huge stiffy!  I guess it was a decadent time that is all tied together by timeless passion. I have yet to feel that with any other era, and I wasn't even there for it. 

In the last 5-10 years, Graffiti are has been all the rage, whether it's Shepard's Fairey with his iconic Obey images of late wrestler Andre the Giant, French artist Space Invader, or the most notorious and mysterious artist of our time British art deviant Banksy.  All these dudes are pretty fucking young and really fucking paid. 

I have been watching a lot of art documentaries in my free time and lately I was turned on to this incredible art documentary, which is actually directed by Banksy, called Exit Through the Gift Shop, which was released in 2010.  This film was originally supposed to be a documentary of a french fat dudes obessesion with street art and the likes of Banksy, but Banksy very cleverly flipped the switch and turned this into a documentary about Thierry Guetta, the French fat dude. 

This documentary chronicles Theirry Guetta's constant documenting of his every waking moment on film, from a chance encounter with his cousin, the artist Invader, to his introduction to a host of street artists with a focus on Shepard Fairey and Banksy, whose anonymity is preserved by obscuring his face and altering his voice, to Guetta's eventual fame as a street artist himself. 

Exit to the Gift Shop was nominated for an Academy Award  for Best Documentary Feature and has received international critical acclaim as well as speculation to whether this film is for real or mockumentary. Either way, it's highly entertaining, fascinating, funny, exhilerating and shows the excitement of the art world all over it! Do yourself a favor, watch this movie because it's one of the most inspirational things you will watch in a very non conventional way!

Please click the play button to get aroused by the trailer!