When I first read the description for the documentary “Exit through the gift shop” I thought I was going to watch a film about street art. The film opened up with scenes of street artists at work all over the world, next Banksy appears in the shadows with his voice distorted. Banksy is one of the most famous street artists in the world, yet no one knows what he looks like. He doesn’t let anyone record or photograph him so that he can remain totally anonymous. By the end, however, I wasn’t sure if what I had just watched was real or another one of Banksy’s pranks. The film starts out telling the story of Thierry Guetta, an obsessive-compulsive, former shop owner who has a passion for documenting his everyday life. Guetta takes a trip back to France and meets up with his street artist cousin Space Invader and becomes very interested in street art. Through the networking of his cousin, he meets other street artists and starts filming them and following them wherever they go. Guetta eventually meets Banksy and Banksy agrees to let Guetta film him. Guetta takes thousands of hours of tape before anyone realizes that hes not actually making a film. They urge him to make a film, and what he produced was 90 minutes of unwatchable clips that were edited together as if someone was channel surfing. Banksy urged Guetta to work on an art exhibit so that he could take the tapes and try to make a watchable film out of it. Guetta’s resulting exhibition was not what I would call art, they were copies of other artists work that he changed to make his own. Mostly Andy Warhol images. He mass produced the images over a short period of time and was able to use Banksys name to promote. Guetta adopted the moniker Mr. Brainwash, and a new street artist was born. Even though it was a guerilla art show, with hardly any promotion, Guetta was able to sell out the venue and profit millions of dollars selling his art to collectors and dealers all around the world. Its hard to tell if Mr. Brainwash actually came to be an artist this way, or if its just another one of Banksy’s pranks. Guetta’s character is so out there, one is left questioning whether or not he is just playing a role.