The movie « Exit through the Gift Shop » has been released in 2010 and directed by Banksy, a famous street artist living in London. It mostly talks about Thierry Ghetta, a French man living in Los Angeles who is now a street artist.

At the beginning of the movie, we can see that Thierry was a seller at a second-hand clothes shop, at the same time, he was obsessed with his camera so he decided to film whenever he could, in fact,  all the time. Thereafter, he discovered street art thanks to his cousin, Invader. He wanted to know more about this new world, as a result, he met a lot of different street artists, he has been spending many time with Shepard Fairey, a street artist who became famous thanks to the creation of “HOPE”, a poster of Barack Obama during the American presidential campaign in 2008. Only one person missed in the street artists list's of Thierry, Banksy. People said that it is impossible to meet him, he has no phone number, nobody knows his real identity, however, Thierry was quite determined to find him, even if he did not know how to. By chance, one day, someone called him saying that Banksy was in Los Angeles, he directly came to the place where he was. And here starts his journey with Banksy, traveling to London, filming everything he was doing in order to make a presumed movie on street art that he had no intention to do. He had tons of cassettes that he had never watched, nevertheless, everyone was waiting this movie, and it has been years since he began to film all those artists and street art world, so he decided to make it. To the opinion of Banksy, it was horrible, that's a little bit why he wanted to move away from him. (and because he thought that Thierry was a bit mad too). Instead, Banksy decided to make the movie himself because he thought that it was a shame if those videos would not be run.

Thierry returned to L.A and became a successful street art with his first exhibition, “life is beautiful”.

         In my opinion, it was a great movie which gave us a lot of information about the street art world. This film is not about Banksy, but about another person although he is the director of the movie and I find it strange. I think that it is really well made and has a good structure, we can easily follow the story. It is not too short, not too long, plus, I did not know much about street art so it was a good opportunity for me to learn more about this subject.