Friday, December 7, 2012 - 8:00pm - 9:30pm
Cinema Curiosa, a Traverse Area District Library film series dedicated to experimental, archival and uncompromising documentary titles that challenge and enrich, presents Exit Through the Gift Shop directed by Banksy (2010 - 87min, USA - UK).
This is the inside story of Street Art - a brutal and revealing account of what happens when fame, money and vandalism collide. Exit Through the Gift Shop follows an eccentric shop-keeper turned amateur film-maker as he attempts to capture many of the world's most infamous vandals on camera, only to have a British stencil artist named Banksy turn the camcorder back on its owner with wildly unexpected results.
"Exit Through the Gift Shop" is a marvelous, one-of-a-kind contraption, a madly spinning top of a movie that keeps zigging and zagging and taking the audience right along with it." Entertainment Weekly - Owen Gleiberman
"Subversive, provocative and unexpected, Exit Through the Gift Shop delights in taking you by surprise, starting quietly but ending up in a hall of mirrors as unsettling as anything Lewis Carroll's Alice ever experienced. It's story has so much resonance that the film rewards multiple viewings." - Los Angeles Times
Winner 'Best Documentary' Independent Spirit Awards 2011
Winner 'Best Nonfiction Feature' Cinema Eye Awards 2011
Winner 'Best Edited Documentary' American Cinema Editors Awards 2011
Winner 'Best Documentary' The Online Film Critics Society Awards 2010
Winner 'Most Entertaining Doc' Grierson British Documentary Award 2010
Winner 'Best Documentary' Washington DC Area Film Critics Award 2010
Winner 'Best Documentary' New York Film Critics Online Award 2010
Winner 'Best 1st Feature' Toronto Film Critics Award 2010
Winner 'Best Documentary' Indiana Journalists Award 2010
Runner Up 'Best Documentary' DFW Film Critics Association 2010
Winner 'Best Documentary' Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2010
Winner 'Best Documentary' Austin Film Critics Association Awards 2010
Winner 'Best Documentary' Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Awards 2010
Winner 'Best First Feature' LA Weekly/Village Voice Film Poll 2010
Winner 'Best Documentary' LA Weekly/Village Voice Film Poll 2010
Runner Up 'Best Documentary' Los Angeles Film Critics Award
Winner 'Best Documentary' San Diego Film Critics Award