Exit Through the Gift Shop movie plot
2022-01-05 08:01
Thierry Gutta is a French living in Los Angeles. He has made money from the second-hand gift business and has given him a lot of free time. Ever since he got a video recorder, it was like being fooled. The machine doesn't leave his hand. It shoots everything day and night, and he even shoots himself in the mirror. People around him are accustomed to the existence of his video recorder. Later Thierry Gutta went back to France. Through his cousin, he met other street artists, Thierry's video recorder, finally got the focus.
Back in Los Angeles, Thierry Gutta approached other street artists and declared that he was going to make a documentary. Street art is not good to say, it is graffiti, vandalism of public property, and artistic creation with very dubious legality. It can only be done secretly, and the shelf life of the finished product is short, usually a few days, if lucky, a few months, it will be destroyed. Now someone is willing to record the creation process as a permanent memorial, and can also help move the ladder, keep the wind, etc., why not do it? So Thierry Gutta has become more and more popular and has become a part of this artistic trend.
But there is one artist that Thierry Gutta has never been able to find, it is Banksy from the United Kingdom. By chance, Thierry Gutta met Banksy. Banksy later invited Thierry Gutta to visit his studio in London and asked him to record his large-scale exhibition in Los Angeles, the fate of Thierry Gutta. Completely changed
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Extended Reading
Exit Through the Gift Shop quotes
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Thierry Guetta: I don't know how to play chess, but to me, life is like a game of chess.
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Banksy: Yeah, I was faced with that terrible thing, when somebody shows you their work and everything about it is shit... so... you don't really know where to start.