“Exit Through the Gift Shop,” 12 February 2011 (2010), DVD. We enjoyed this banksy production (a documentary, a mockumentary? I’m not sure which) about Mr Brain Wash, aka Thierry, an obsessive videographer used clothing salesman from LA (French immigrant) who chronicled the street art scene as part of his obsession and then, with no talent, joined it successfully, mounting a show and selling millions of dollars of utterly derivative, unoriginal pseudo-art only to emerge esteemed by some as a major talent. It felt like a Christopher Guest film ramped up with utter wack jobs. Real, postmodern fraud (as is so much of that art?) Who the hell knows. I enjoyed the movie but it was also very creepy and depressing about both the turn from street to commercial art and the emptiness of so much of it as snapped up by people with more money than brains. Banksy, the British street artist, is really smart and talented. So are many of the real street artists. Thierry/MBW, is not. He is just (now) rich and bizarre or perhaps not if it was all a goof. I don’t know and that left me feeling rather dissatisfied even as I enjoyed the movie. My friend Generoso Fierro loathed the movie and would probably be appalled to see I enjoyed it, whatever my caveats. Also enjoyed the feature on banksy. See this film