Exit Through the Gift Shop

Exit Through the Gift Shop

The world's first Street Art disaster movie...

2010•1h 26m•7.5/10

Documentary

Ratings

🎬TMDb

7.5/10(940)

Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from post-hurricane New Orleans to the separation barrier on the Palestinian West Bank. Fiercely guarding his anonymity to avoid prosecution, Banksy has so far resisted all attempts to be captured on film. Exit Through the Gift Shop tells the incredible true story of how an eccentric French shop keeper turned documentary maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner.

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Production

Oscilloscope, Paranoid Pictures, KEO Films

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Trailers & Videos

Cast

Rhys Ifans

Rhys Ifans

Narrator

Thierry Guetta

Self

Banksy

Banksy

Self

Shepard Fairey

Shepard Fairey

Self

INVADER

Self

Debora Guetta

Self

Monsieur André

Self

Zeus

Self

Swoon

Self

Borf

Self

Buffmonster

Self

Steve Lazarides

Self

Wendy Asher

Self

Laurent Nahoum-Vatinet

Self

Roger Gastman

Self

Amanda Fairey

Self

Romain Lefebure

Self

Clemence Janin

Self

David Healy

Self

Celeste Sparrow

Self

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