FREE ON VIMEO Exit Through The Gift Shop

FREE ON VIMEO (DU FINDEST DEN GANZEN FILM FREI AUF VIMEO) It's rumored that Exit Through The Gift Shop is all just fake. At least that's what customers here in our video store like to tell me. But doesn't that contribute even more to the fascination of this "documentary"? So here comes an anonymous graffiti artist from London (let's just call him Banksy) and tries his hand at the walls of Los Angeles. There he meets an obscure Frenchman named Thierry Guetta, who dedicated his life to graffiti artists like him: He records them on video. Hundreds of video tapes are created and disappear into the trash. Banksy has an idea: why not produce a film from the material? That's why Banksy Guetta advises Guetta to create his own artwork: Exit Through The Gift Shop. Guetta follows the council, calls himself Mr. Brainwash, organizes an exhibition of his work, and earns a fortune. Surely this Guetta can't be real? With its strange French accent and moustache? Of course, that's not real either: ten thousand people queuing to see a debutante's work! Is it? And Guetta's works of art? They look like plagiarisms of "real" artists. Do they? Who would go to such lengths just to produce a fake art documentary? But Exit Through The Gift Shop was really cut together from the material of a whole decade. Secretly recorded videos of artists who risk arrest and death. And Guetta, the French cartoonist who constantly talks about how much he admires these artists. Real artists and real works of art that decorate the public space. And Guetta? He paints a can of tomato spray (if that seems familiar to anyone). What would the original Andy-Warhol have said? Surely Guetta has an absolute right to call his tomato spray can a work of art and earn a fortune with it! Let's go one step further. Let's enter the room of my bouncer Ali with his friends. They play the Fifa World Cup daily as a video game. The Fifa World Cup Game - Art? Lies in the eye of the beholder! Conclusion: Exit Through The Gift Shop is a great documentary! Definitely not a con. Who wants a real Thierry Guetta? (Not me.) Banksy should be the Dr. Frankenstein of Guetta and I think both are great! And is that all art? Never mind.