New Banksy Film about street art

http://www.banksyfilm.com/

by d4ft • 16 years ago

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Alex39172• 16 years ago

It's not about street art, it's about a guy who is trying to make a documentary about Banksy. Definitely worth seeing though, it will really make you think.

onassar• 16 years ago

A tip: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Brainwash#Mr._Brainwash_spe...

Makes you rethink it a bit, huh.

Alex39172• 16 years ago

Right, I didn't want to add any spoilers. It's still not really clear to me whether it's actually a hoax or not. If it is then there's no clear moral, and either way it's realistic enough that it doesn't really matter.

lambda2• 16 years ago

It was an interesting film; I wouldn't call it great, but it was certainly thought-provoking. It was at least worth the free showing I saw.

It's really more about the absurdity of the value that people place on art, rather than about street art per se. If you go in expecting people to talk about street art, how they do it, why they do it, and the like, you'll be disappointed (it has a bit of that, but that's not the point).

binarymax• 16 years ago

Shame there are no listings for London considering Bansky is English...I would have definitely paid to see it.

lionhearted• 16 years ago

I walked past the kids pledging allegiance to Tesco most days when I was in Islington:

http://images.google.com/images?q=banksy%20tesco&um=1...

Edit: For people outside of England, Tesco is one of the bigger or biggest convenience store chains, similar to 7-11. The kids are wearing traditional school uniforms. So it'd be similar to graffiti of American kids in conservative, traditional dress saluting the 7-11 logo.

Hates_• 16 years ago

I know it's too late now and the run has finished, but Curzon were playing it in their London cinemas last month/start of this month.

tomafro• 16 years ago

It was released in London in March so is no longer on in most cinemas. That said, the Prince Charles in Soho is showing it on Monday and Wednesday lunchtime: http://bit.ly/9AqEZ7

dzlobin2• 16 years ago

For those who care about foursquare, apparently there is a secret badge you get if you check into a screening and mention banksy

dotBen2• 16 years ago

Yeah, this is why I don't get foursquare. I personally don't really care for this badge nonsense.

dzlobin2• 16 years ago

I don't see why that's worth a downvote but I agree, all I see it being useful for is having friends leave notes so that if I'm somewhere new, someone might have left a suggestion as to what I should do/eat/see there

sh1mmer4• 16 years ago

For the people in San Francisco, Banksy has apparently done some art at Valencia between 19th and 20th. It's above Little Otsu.

We went to see it yesterday and it's fairly awesome.

There is another one in Chinatown I haven't seen yet.

hugh32• 16 years ago

On whose property? Did he get the owner's permission beforehand?

sh1mmer4• 16 years ago

This is someone who has done graffiti on the west bank wall mocking the IDF. My guess is probably not.

Timothee• 16 years ago

I saw it on Thursday indeed. It's the rat seen on the OP webpage with "Exit at the gift shop", if I remember correctly.

Found right here, above Amnesia actually: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...

rantfoil• 16 years ago

Interesting artifact: Amnesia is one of the hippest live venues / bars in the area, kind of ground zero for Mission hipsterdom. That it now has the art of Banksy really only elevates it to new echelons of cool never before seen this side of Valencia.

sh1mmer4• 16 years ago

It's not the rat.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/troyholden/4544878324/

Although the rat has apparently been spotted in SOMA.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kapshure/4547103038/

anigbrowl• 16 years ago

Saw it last week, loved it. Highly recommended.

joelhaus• 16 years ago

Trailer looks good: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0b90YppquE

Always enjoyed De La Vega's stuff around NYC, but didn't see it mentioned: http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=de+la+vega+art

GiraffeNecktie3• 16 years ago

Having just spent about $20,000 that I can't afford replacing the exterior stucco on a downtown building, only to have it defaced by someone's idea of "street art" (if that's what you call scribbling your name with a spray can) count me less than enthusiastic about a film that glorifies this movement.

zb• 16 years ago

I don't think many people would consider simple 'tagging' (i.e. just scribbling your name) as art, and it's hardly comparable to Banksy's work.

steveklabnik2• 16 years ago

Yes, but people have to start somewhere.

GiraffeNecktie3• 16 years ago

Maybe not in your mind or my mind, but the kid with the spray can is living in a different reality.

aaronblohowiak• 16 years ago

"Having just spent about $20,000 that I can't afford" -- that's your problem right there!

GiraffeNecktie3• 16 years ago

Perhaps. But the original stucco was falling off, so I didn't have any choice.

New Banksy Film about street art

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