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Banksy, or Everyone’s Got an Agenda
When doc filmmakers and doc subjects have conflicting agendas. Plus, Banksy!
The excellent “Exit Through The Gift Shop” is the most recent example of a doc in which the subject, Thierry Guetta, and the filmmaker, British artist Banksy (allegedly) seem to have openly competing agendas — Guetta sees his story as one of artistic success, and Banksy as a sad testament to hype being everything in the mainstream art scene.
This week on the IFC News podcast, we talk about the film (with spoilers — please consider yourselves warned!) and about other docs that call out conflicting motives between filmmaker and film subject.
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Tags: Amir Bar-Lev, Banksy, Capturing the Friedmans, Doom, Everything Is Illuminated, Exit Through The Gift Shop, My Kid Could Paint That, Nina Davenport, Operation Filmmaker
