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Movies at the Museum: Exit Through The Gift Shop

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*This screening will take place at the Ulster Museum, to tie in with the current Street Art exhibition - Tags Not Labels.*

A film about a man who tried to make a film about me" is how renowned British graffiti artist Banksy describes this feature. Banksy is used to fiercely guarding his identity to avoid prosecution, so it was perhaps no surprise when he refused to be filmed by an eccentric French shop owner named Thierry Guetta. Exit Through The Gift Shop traces Thierry's attempts to capture the world of graffiti art in thrilling detail, following many of the most infamous figures at work in the streets. We trace Thierry's efforts to locate and befriend Banksy only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner with spectacular results. An incendiary true story of low-level criminality, companionship and incompetence.

The story of how one man set out to film the un-filmable. And failed.

Tickets £3 - book online at the link below.

 

 

 

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Run Time

1 hour 26 minutes

Released

2010

Country

USA/UK

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What you say

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Adam Fusco

The Frankenstein of Documentaries. An interesting look at the world of street art -however as the art comes out of the street and into the gallaries, i wonder if the joke is on, us, the viewer for watching the film in the first place.

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