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What Did Thierry Guetta Do With His Hundreds of Hours of Street Art Video Tape?

2010 picture show directed by Banksy

Leave Through the Gift Shop
Exit-through-the-gift-shop.jpg
Directed past Banksy
Produced by Jaimie D'Cruz
Starring
  • Mr. Educate
  • Banksy
  • Shepard Fairey
  • Invader
  • André
Narrated past Rhys Ifans
Edited by
  • Tom Fulford
  • Chris Male monarch
Music by Geoff Barrow

Production
company

Paranoid Pictures
Distributed by Revolver Entertainment

Release date
  • 5 March 2010 (2010-03-05)

Running fourth dimension

 87 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Languages
  • English language
  • French
Box office $5,308,618

Exit Through the Souvenir Shop: A Banksy Picture is a 2010 British documentary moving-picture show, directed by street artist Banksy. Information technology tells the story of Thierry Guetta, a French immigrant in Los Angeles, and his obsession with street art. The pic charts Guetta'south constant documenting of his every waking moment on motion picture, 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 vocalisation, to Guetta's eventual fame as a street artist himself. It is narrated by Rhys Ifans. The music is by Geoff Barrow. It includes Richard Hawley'south "Tonight The Streets Are Ours".[1]

The film premiered at the 2010 Sundance Motion picture Festival on 24 Jan 2010, and it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Since its release, there has been extensive debate over whether the documentary is genuine or a mockumentary, although Banksy answered "Yes" when asked if the film is existent.[2]

Synopsis [edit]

Thierry Guetta is a French immigrant living in Los Angeles who runs a vintage wearable shop. He also has an obsession with carrying a camera everywhere and constantly filming his surroundings. On a holiday in France, he discovers his cousin is Invader, an internationally known street artist. Thierry finds this fascinating, and accompanies Invader and his friends, including the artists Monsieur André and Zevs on their nocturnal adventures, documenting their activities. A few months after, Invader visits Thierry in LA, and arranges a meeting with Shepard Fairey. Thierry continues filming Fairey's activities even later Invader has returned home to French republic. While Fairey is confused past Thierry'due south enthusiasm, Thierry states that he wishes to make a complete documentary most street art, and the ii cross the nation, filming other artists at work, including Poster Boy, Seizer, Cervix Face, Sweet Toof, Cyclops, Ron English, Dotmasters, Swoon, Azil, Borf and Buff Monster. What Guetta fails to tell Fairey is that he has no plan to compile his footage into an actual pic, and never looks at his footage.

Guetta continues to hear more than about Banksy—a prominent and particularly secretive creative person. His attempts to contact Banksy are unsuccessful, until one day Banksy visits LA without his usual accomplice, who is refused entry to the US. Stuck in LA without a guide, Banksy contacts Fairey, who calls Guetta. Guetta becomes Banksy's guide in LA, later post-obit him back to England, winning the privilege to moving-picture show Banksy on his habitation turf—a feat that confuses Banksy's crew. Banksy, however, sees the opportunity to certificate street art, which he recognizes as having a "brusk life bridge", and after Guetta aids him in recording both product, deployment and oversupply reactions to his "Murdered Phone-box" piece, asks him to film the preparations for his "Barely Legal" bear witness. The ii get friends, as Guetta provides Banksy with some relief from his anonymity. Returning to LA, Guetta becomes bored, and eventually produces his own stickers and decals, putting them upwards in the city.

Banksy'south testify is being prepared in Skid Row, Los Angeles, and while in LA, Banksy decides deploying a Guantanamo Bay detainee doll in Disneyland. He visits the location and places the doll while Guetta films it. A short while later, withal, the rides finish, and the park's security catch Guetta, who is taken to an interrogation room, while Banksy switches clothes and blends into the oversupply. During interrogation, Guetta refuses to acknowledge whatsoever wrongdoing, and when immune a phone telephone call, covertly alerts Banksy to his situation. When confronted by security personnel, he destroys the testify in his stills camera, only stashes the videotape in his sock and is eventually let go, much to the amazement of Banksy who so says he trusts him implicitly considering of the incident.

A few days afterward, "Barely Legal" opens, and becomes an overnight success. Street art prices brainstorm to rocket in auction houses. Banksy is stunned by the sudden hype surrounding street fine art, and urges Guetta to terminate his supposed documentary. Guetta begins to edit together the several k hours of footage, and produces a moving-picture show titled Life Remote Control. The result is 90 minutes of distorted fast cutting well-nigh random themes. Banksy questions Guetta'south ability as a filmmaker, deeming his production "unwatchable", but realizes the street art footage itself is valuable. Banksy decides to effort producing a film himself. To ensure that Guetta remains occupied, Banksy suggests he makes his own art show.

"I think the joke is on... I don't know who the joke is on, actually. I don't even know if at that place is a joke."

— Banksy's former spokesman Steve Lazarides

Guetta accepts the consignment, adopting the proper noun "Mr. Brainwash", putting upwards street art in the city and half dozen months later, re-mortgaging his business to afford renting copious equipment and a complete production team to create pieces of fine art under his supervision. He rents a former CBS studio to set up his showtime bear witness, "Life Is Cute", and scales up his production to something much larger than Banksy suggested, only with little focus. When Guetta breaks his foot later falling off a ladder, Banksy realises that the bear witness may become a trainwreck, and sends a few professionals to help Guetta out. While the producers accept care of the applied side of the evidence, Guetta spends his time on more than publicity, request back up from both Fairey and Banksy, eventually taping up huge billboards with their quotes, and ultimately catastrophe up on the cover of LA Weekly. Preparation is seriously behind schedule, and Guetta'south production team insists that he must make decisions—all the same Guetta spends his time hyping upward and marketing his work for tens of thousands of dollars. Eight hours before the opening, paintings are still missing from the walls, and since Guetta is decorated giving interviews, the eventual layout of the show is decided by the crew itself.

Despite all this, nevertheless, the show becomes a raging success with the crowd, and after the get-go week of the show, Guetta sells almost a meg dollars' worth of art, with his pieces showing in galleries all around the world, to the utter defoliation of both Fairey and Banksy. In an ending montage, Guetta insists that time volition tell whether he is a real artist or non. Banksy states he will never again aid someone brand a documentary.

Production [edit]

Banksy has said in interviews that editing the motion picture together was an arduous process, noting that "I spent a year [...] watching footage of sweaty vandals falling off ladders"[3] and "The movie was made by a very small team. It would have been even smaller if the editors didn't go along having mental breakdowns. They went through over 10,000 hours of Thierry's tapes and got literally seconds of usable footage out of it."[4] Producer Jaimie D'Cruz wrote in his production diary that obtaining the original tapes from Thierry was especially complicated.

Release and reception [edit]

Film manufacture veterans John Sloss and Bart Walker founded a new distribution visitor to release the moving picture in the US, Producers Distribution Agency (PDA).[five] With a unique grassroots campaign, PDA brought the motion-picture show to a The states theatrical gross of $three.29MM.[6] Oscilloscope Laboratories released Go out Through the Gift Shop on DVD and Blu-ray in 2011.[7]

The picture received overwhelmingly positive reviews. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the motion-picture show holds an blessing rating of 96%, based on 113 reviews, and an average rating of viii.11/x. The website'due south critical consensus reads, "An amusing, engrossing look at hole-and-corner fine art, Exit Through the Gift Store entertains equally it deflates the myths and hype surrounding its subjects."[8] On Metacritic, the motion picture has a weighted average score of 85 out of 100, based on 27 critics, indicating "universal acclamation".[ix] It was also nominated for Academy Award for Best Documentary Characteristic at the 83rd Academy Awards.[x]

New York Pic Critics Online bestowed its All-time Documentary Honor on the pic in 2010. French journalist Marjolaine Gout gave it 4 stars out of 5, linking Mr. Educate and Jeff Koons and criticizing Thierry Guetta's art equally toilet papering.[11]

Hoax speculation [edit]

One consequent theme in the reviews was the actuality of the pic: Was the film just an elaborate ruse on Banksy's part, or did Guetta actually evolve into Mr. Brainwash overnight? The Boston Globe flick reviewer Ty Burr found information technology to be quite entertaining and awarded it four stars. He dismissed the notion of the movie being a "put on", saying that "I'grand not ownership information technology; for i thing, this story'south too good, too weirdly rich, to be made upward. For another, the movie's gently amused scorn lands on anybody."[12] Roger Ebert gave it iii.5 stars out of 4, writing: "The widespread speculation that 'Leave Through the Gift Shop' is a hoax only adds to its fascination."[13] In an interview with SuicideGirls,[14] filmmakers Jaimie D'Cruz and Chris Rex denied that it was a hoax, and expressed their growing frustration with the speculation that information technology was: "For a while we all thought that was quite funny, but it went on for and then long. Information technology was a scrap disappointing when it became basically accepted as fact, that it was all just a silly hoax… I felt information technology was a shame that the whole thing was going to be dismissed like that really – because we knew it was true."[15]

The New York Times movie reviewer Jeannette Catsoulis wrote that the pic could be a new subgenre, a "prankumentary".[16]

Guetta in an interview said: "This motion-picture show is 100% real. Banksy captured me becoming an artist. In the terminate, I became his biggest work of art."[17]

Copyright issues [edit]

Guetta faced copyright issues following the release of the film. Glen Friedman, an American lensman,[18] successfully sued Guetta over the apply of a photograph of the rap group Run-DMC.[19] Guetta tried to claim that he had altered it enough to be considered an original piece of art. Yet, the presiding judge over the case, Judge Pregerson, ultimately ruled Friedman'due south photograph was protected under the transformative fair use constabulary.[ commendation needed ] Guetta also faced copyright claims from Joachim Levy, a Swiss filmmaker, who edited and produced Guetta's film Life Remote Control,[20] clips of which were shown in the film. Levy was not credited for his piece of work he did on the film; however, Guetta owned the footage which was then licensed to Banksy.[xx]

Archival footage [edit]

The film'southward opening montage includes archival footage from the following street fine art films: Dirty Hands: The Art and Crimes of David Choe, Infamy, Megpoid, Next, Open Air, The Lyfe, Popaganda: The Art and Crimes of Ron English, Rash, Restless Debt of the Third World, Spending Time, Turf War, Elis Thousand The Life of a Shadow, Memoria Canalla, C215 in London and Cute Losers.[21]

References [edit]

  1. ^ Willmore, Alison, "Leave Through The Souvenir Shop: Information technology'southward a madhouse, this modernistic life", The Independent Eye, IFC reviews of the Sundance Picture show Festival, 27 Jan 2010
  2. ^ "Frequently asked questions". Archived from the original on 3 January 2012. Retrieved 27 March 2012.
  3. ^ Kylie Northover (29 May 2010). "Drawn from the shadows, wanted human being comes out to play". The Sydney Morning Herald.
  4. ^ Shelley Leopold. "Banksy Revealed?".
  5. ^ ""Exit" Strategy: Bringing Banksy to the Masses". Indiewire. 7 Apr 2010.
  6. ^ "Box office results". Box Office Mojo.
  7. ^ "Oscilloscope to Release Banksy DVD". Variety.
  8. ^ "Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
  9. ^ "Exit Through the Gift Shop Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
  10. ^ "Oscar nominations 2011: Complete list of Academy Honor nominees". The Washington Post. 25 Jan 2011. Retrieved 25 Jan 2011.
  11. ^ "Review of Go out Through the Souvenir Shop". Écran big (in French).
  12. ^ Burr, Ty, "Exit Through the Gift Shop: Writing'southward on the wall: In 'Leave,' street fine art scene becomes a farce", The Boston Globe, 23 April 2010
  13. ^ Ebert, Roger (28 April 2010). "Exit Through the Gift Shop movie review (2010)". Chicago Sun-Times . Retrieved 25 Nov 2020.
  14. ^ "Jaimie D'Cruz and Chris Male monarch: Exit Through the Gift Shop". Suicide girls. 14 December 2010. Archived from the original on xv Feb 2011. Retrieved 24 Feb 2011. .
  15. ^ "Jaimie D'Cruz and Chris Rex: Get out Through the Gift Shop". Suicide Girls. fourteen December 2010. Archived from the original on xv February 2011. Retrieved 24 February 2011.
  16. ^ Catsoulis, Jeannette, "On the Street, at the Corner of Fine art and Trash", The New York Times, sixteen Apr 2010.""Exit" could exist a new subgenre: the prankumentary. Audiences, however, would exist advised simply to savor the film on its face – fifty-fifty if that face is a carefully contrived mask."
  17. ^ Felch, Jason, "Getting at the truth of 'Exit Through the Souvenir Shop'", Los Angeles Times, 22 February 2011.
  18. ^ Friedman, Glen, Glen E. Friedman#Books and exhibitions with significant Friedman contributions (partial listing)4
  19. ^ Run DMC Photograph.
  20. ^ a b The New York Times, Life Remote Control footage lawsuit
  21. ^ Credits, 'Archival footage', Leave Through the Gift Shop.

Further reading [edit]

  • "Banksy film to debut at Sundance". BBC News. BBC. 21 January 2010. Retrieved 21 January 2010.
  • Knegt, Peter (21 Jan 2010). "Sundance Surprise: Banksy's "Gift Shop"". indieWire . Retrieved 21 January 2010.
  • "Sundance 2010: Banksy rocks festival with 'Gift Shop'". Los Angeles Times. 25 January 2010. Retrieved 25 January 2010.
  • "Moving picture REVIEW: Exit Through The Gift Store". Culture Northern Ireland. 9 March 2010. Archived from the original on eleven Jan 2012. Retrieved ix March 2010.
  • Jackson, Candace; Schuker, Lauren A. East., "Mr. Brainwash: For Real?", The Wall Street Periodical, 12 February 2010.
  • Ryzik, Melena, "Riddle? Aye. Enigma? Sure. Documentary?", The New York Times, thirteen April 2010.
  • Michael Hutak, Exit Through the Foyer. Review of Australian première at the 2010 Sydney Motion picture Festival; critiques the flick for posing equally hoax.

External links [edit]

  • Official website
  • Go out Through the Gift Store at IMDb
  • Exit Through the Gift Store at Rotten Tomatoes
  • 'Shenanigans Are What He Does': Is Banksy Gunning For An Oscar? – audio report by NPR
  • Exit Through the Gift Shop: Cavemen to the Right Film Review, Bright Lights Film Journal

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