Exit Through the Gift Shop at Sundance film festival. January 2010

The film premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival on 24 January 2010 and was later nominated for the Oscars and the BAFTAs for Best Documentary Feature. The synopsis was described in the following way on the official website:

“This is the inside story of Street Art – a brutal and revealing account of what happens when fame, money and vandalism collide. Exit Through the Gift Shop follows an eccentric shop-keeper turned amateur film-maker as he attempts to capture many of the world’s most infamous vandals on camera, only to have a British stencil artist named Banksy turn the camcorder back on its owner with wildly unexpected results. One of the most provocative films about art ever made, Exit Through the Gift Shop is a fascinating study of low-level criminality, comradeship and incompetence. By turns shocking, hilarious and absurd, this is an enthralling modern-day fairytale… with bolt cutters.”