Exit Through the Gift Shop Documentary Review

I was rivoted while watching this documentary about street art: Exit Through the Gift Shop.

This is an odd tale of a man obsessed and addicted to making video recordings of his life. He made recording after recording and would never watch them. This segued into him filming street artists at work. He then started saying he was filing to make a documentary when in fact he was just having fun doing the filming.

In the end perhaps one of the most famous street artists, Banksy, wound up making the documentary film using the original footage.

This is also the story of when a person decides to become an artist themselves, using a staff of hired artists (not unlike what Andy Warhol did) and as an unknown, to put on their own one man show. You won't believe what happens.

If you like art and the artistic process, and are curious about street art, you will enjoy this documentary.

They never did explain the title but I think I know. When you are accosted by Disney's security they bring you to their underground interrogation rooms through a door in the gift shop. What that has to do with the movie, you'll have to watch to find out. (How I know that fact about the gift shop door: while at Disney as a high school senior with a school trip some of my classmates attempted shoplifting and were caught and went through the gift shop door to the underground inquiry rooms.)