It begins with a French emigrant residing in L.A., who owns a second hand clothing shop, but is obsessed with filming everything in his life. He carries a camera at all times. On a visit to London to see a cousin, he discovers the world of Street Art. This cousin happened to be on the cusp of the movement, and called himself "Space Invader."
He made his art out of these tiles, and put them all around London. Since, the Frenchman taped everything, he gets hours upon hours of these artists forming this art around London at night. He soon begins the meet the biggest players in the street art field. However, he has a personal obsession with meeting the largest player, Banksy. (activity: google image 'Banksy' and see his work, it's amazing) Through happenstance he finally meets the illusive artist, and becomes his sidekick for the next several years, taping everything. He gets permission to do this by telling Banksy he is putting together a documentary on street art. This documentary was something he never intended to create, however through Bansky's request is finally produced. Apparently, it was so shitty, Banksy convinced the Frenchman to him to leave him the tapes, and motivated him to become a street artist himself. Never thinking he actually would.
Enter, Mr. Brainwash.
The Frenchman sold his business, re-mortgaged his house, and put his family's livelihood on the line to become an artist. Instead of spending years honing his craft, he put together a team of people to help him produce one of the largest exhibits the street art world had ever seen. It is at this point that the movie becomes less about street art and more about Mr. Brainwash. What happens next I will let you wait to find out. But, the whole doc is done by Banksy, since the Frenchman left him the tapes. SO good.
Is it graffiti? art? genius? a product of creativity & boredom with a splash a vandalism? maybe all of the above.
so paul watched that too.
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