Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)

Street art is an art form that has grown quite a lot the last couple of years. The art itself is usually very temporary as it’s seen as graffiti by city officials and subsequently removed. It’s something the artists themselves are very aware of and they generally do not mind. Thierry Guetta is not a street artist, but he does film everything (he always has his camera in his hand and is filming). He joins his cousin, who is street artist Space Invader regularly. Space Invader is well-known for sticking tiles with the space invader game characters on them to walls all around the world. Guetta is very interested in this form of art and asks other artists if he’s allowed to tag along and film them. They usually agree and Guetta gets to know a lot of artists. He learns more about the art, but there is one artists he isn’t able to track down and get in contact with. That artist is Banksy. Continue reading