Banksy missing from Berlin film festival
Banksy art in London
Banksy is an absent guest in Berlin. The English artist presented his first film without showing up.
Much has been spoken about Roman Polanski’s absence from Berlinale, however, little has been mentioned about Banksy and his first film ‘Exit through the gift shop’. If the director Polanski could not go to Germany for legal reasons (which everyone knows about), the case of Banksy, the English street artist is a little different. A major figure in the graffiti world, a Bristol native born in 1974, presented ‘Exit through the gift shop‘, his first feature-length film remaining incognito on Sunday. A special requirement for this splendid outlaw who left his mark on the walls of the largest capitals, in New-Orleans after Katrina, and in the West Bank. A kind of True-fake documentary, ‘Exit through the gift shop’ speaks about a cultural movement which wants to be subversive and switches to the denunciation of the snobbery in the world. I’m not sure when it come out, but I’m looking forward to checking it out hopefully soon. Did anne see it on Sunday or at the Sundance festival?