History Film / ExitThroughTheGiftShop

* SpiritualSuccessor: Some consider this film to be a successor to ''Film/FForFake''. Like ''ETTGS'', it is a documentary assembled largely through found footage that analyzes the nature of art.

-->'''[[https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-xpm-2011-feb-22-la-et-oscar-exit-20110222-story.html Mr. Brainwash]]''': Banksy captured me becoming an artist. [[AmbiguousSyntax In the end, I became his biggest work of art]].

* WildHair: Guetta.

* CameraFiend: Thierry films absolutely everything. At one point it shows that hundreds of unmarked tapes that he's filmed over the years.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: Space Invader, Mr. Brainwash, etc.

* {{Mockumentary}}: ''Possibly''. One of the most common theories of the film on a meta level is that Guetta/Mr. Brainwash (at least how he's presented in the film) is merely a character devised by Banksy and that the film is by him, essentially being an extensive hoax where Guetta is [[AudienceSurrogate a stand-in for the archetypal everyman]] [[ThisLoserIsYou and potential "artist" in the audience]]. This is made a little muddy since [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Brainwash Guetta/Mr. Brainwash]] actually exists as an artist who continues to operate well after this film, [[MindScrew but who's to say that's not all an act as well]]?

* SpiritualSuccessor: Some consider this film to be a successor to ''Film/FForFake''. Like ETTGS, it is a documentary assembled largely through found footage that analyzes the nature of art.

* {{Mockumentary}}: ''Possibly''. One of the most common theories of the film on a meta level is that Guetta/Mr. Brainwash (at least how he's presented in the film) is merely a character devised by Banksy, with the film actually being an extensive hoax where Guetta is merely [[AudienceSurrogate a stand-in for the archetypal everyman]] [[ThisLoserIsYou and potential "artist" in the audience]]. This is made a little muddy since [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Brainwash Mr. Brainwash]] actually exists as a street artist who continues to operate well after this film, [[MindScrew but who's to say that's not all an act as well]]?

* {{Mockumentary}}: ''Possibly''. One of the most common theories of the film on a meta level is that Guetta/Mr. Brainwash (at least how he's presented in the film) is merely a character devised by Banksy, with the film actually being an extensive hoax where Guetta is merely [[AudienceSurrogate a stand-in for the archetypal everyman]][[ThisLoserIsYou and potential "artist" in the audience]]. This is made a little muddy since [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Brainwash Mr. Brainwash]] actually exists as a street artist who continues to operate well after this film, [[MindScrew but who's to say that's not all an act as well]]?

* RealSongThemeTune[=/=]ThematicThemeTune: Richard Hawley's "Tonight The Streets Are Ours" isn't literally about street art, but rather about creative sterility. And of course, there's the chorus.

''Exit Through the Gift Shop'' is a documentary by French filmmaker/obsessive filming hobbyist Thierry Guetta about Creator/{{Banksy}} and the street art scene, unless it's a documentary by Banksy about Thierry Guetta.

* RealSongThemeTune / ThematicThemeTune: Richard Hawley's "Tonight The Streets Are Ours" isn't literally about street art, but rather about creative sterility. And of course, there's the chorus.

Guetta carries a camera wherever he goes and films everything. When he discovers that his cousin is the street artist ''Space Invader'', he becomes the unofficial documentarian of the rising street art movement, meeting and accompanying prominent artists like Shepard Fairey. He eventually sets his sights on the most famous and elusive street artist of all: Banksy. But everything turns around when Banksy inspires him to become a street artist himself under the name Mr. Brainwash.

Guetta carries a camera wherever he goes and films everything. When he discovers that his cousin is the street artist Invader, he becomes the unofficial documentarian of the rising street art movement, meeting and accompanying prominent artists like Shepard Fairey. He eventually sets his sights on the most famous and elusive street artist of all: Banksy. But everything turns around when Banksy inspires him to become a street artist himself under the name Mr. Brainwash.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: Invader, Mr. Brainwash, etc.

* TheFaceless: Banksy, Invader, and several other artists do not allow their faces to be filmed.

* AgonyOfTheFeet: A downside to constantly filming rather than looking where you are going.

* TheFaceless: Banksy, Invader, and several other artists do not allow their faces to be filmed.
* WeirdnessCensor: Banksy puts a mannequin dressed like a Guantanamo Bay detainee in the middle of Disneyland, but Guetta, filming the piece, is the only one who gets caught.

* XtremeKoolLetterz: Common in graffiti.

* RealSongThemeTune / ThematicThemeSong: Richard Hawley's "Tonight The Streets Are Ours" isn't literally about street art, but rather about creative sterility. And of course, there's the chorus.

* RodentsOfUnusualSize: Wharf rats are a motif in Banksy's art.

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''Exit Through The Gift Shop'' is a documentary by French filmmaker/obsessive filming hobbyist Thierry Guetta about Creator/{{Banksy}} and the street art scene, unless it's a documentary by Banksy about Thierry Guetta.

!!''Exit Through The Gift Shop'' provides examples of:

* ReclusiveArtist: Banksy is hard to get in touch with and hides his identity.

* StylisticSuck: ''Life Remote Control'' (assuming ''Exit Through The Gift Shop'' is indeed a [[{{Mockumentary}} mockumentary]]).

* DocumentaryOfLies: The film's producers claim it's 100% legit, but it's still a matter of debate how much of the film has been fictionalized. Of course, that just makes the film more interesting.

* SpiritualSuccessor: Some consider this film to be a successor to OrsonWelles's film ''FForFake''. Like ETTGS, it is a documentary assembled largely through found footage that analyzes the nature of art.
* StylisticSuck: ''Life Remote Control'' (assuming ''ExitThroughTheGiftShop'' is indeed a [[{{Mockumentary}} mockumentary]]).

''Exit Through The Gift Shop'' is a documentary by French filmmaker/obsessive filming hobbyist Thierry Guetta about {{Banksy}} and the street art scene, unless it's a documentary by Banksy about Thierry Guetta.

* RealSongThemeSong / ThematicThemeSong: Richard Hawley's "Tonight The Streets Are Ours" isn't literally about street art, but rather about creative sterility. And of course, there's the chorus.