Exit Through the Gift Shop follows Thierry Guetta a frenchman in LA who carries around a video camera recording everything he does. One time while recording his cousin know as Space Invader is making mosaics versions of characters from Space Invaders and Pac Man and putting them up on different locations in LA. Thierry records his cousin putting them up around LA and through this he finds other LA graffiti artists and helps and record them doing there graffiti. Around this time Bansky pops up doing his graffiti and Thierry gets fascinated by him and wanting to make a doucmnetry about him and all the other graffiti artists. Through connections Thierry meets Bansky and says about how he wants to make a documentary about him but Basnky thinks Thierry is a lot more interesting than him and gets him to do a documentary about himself. Thierry used all the footage he had to make the documentary but it was all jumpy and has no plot and you can't understand it. Bansky takes it upon himself to direct the documentary himself and tells Thierry to make he's own street art, Thierry does this and gives himself a new name under Mister Brainwash, Thierry becomes very popular in LA and makes around a million dollars in selling his stuff.
The documentary consist of archive video footage and pictures shot by Thierry with interview of Thierry, Bansky and other graffiti artists included over the top and also a Narration by Rhys Ifans over the top and bits of repeated music here and there.
The Agency of the film is Thierry's determination and fascination with street art and his determination to meet and make a documentary of Bansky. This drives the documentary and keeps u interested to see where Thierry ends up.
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