Film Screening:

Exit Through the Gift Shop
(Banksy, 2010, 87 min, UK, in English, Color, DVD).

Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from post-hurricane New Orleans to the separation barrier on the Palestinian West Bank. He fiercely guards his anonymity to avoid prosecution. An eccentric French shopkeeper turned documentary maker attempts to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner. Includes footage of Banksy, Shepard Fairey, Invader and many of the world's most infamous graffiti artists at work, on walls and in interviews. As Banksy describes it, "It's basically the story of how one man set out to film the un-filmable. And failed."

-- Nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 2011 Academy Awards, Outstanding Debut by a British filmmaker at the 2011 BAFTA Awards, and Best Documentary at the 2011 Independent Spirit Awards!

Cost: Free and open to the public.

Sponsors: The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image, and the Nasher Museum Store