Banksy Does New York (2014)

Directed by

Chris Moukarbel

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 19m

Rated

G

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 76 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows the month-long 2013 street art project by the anonymous artist Banksy in New York City. Each day a new piece appeared around the city, announced on Instagram, ranging from a painted truck full of puppet animals to cheap original paintings sold in Central Park. The film captures the public's reactions and the fleeting nature of the works.

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What happens

Banksy Does New York is a 2014 HBO documentary film directed by Chris Moukarbel about Banksy's Better Out Than In project. The documentary covers Banksy's one month residency in October 2013, in which the artist presented a new work of art daily and announced the locations via his Instagram account each morning. Among the artworks filmed and described are a cement sphinx, a truck of moving puppet farm animals driven and parked in front of various New York butchers and meat markets, paintings which were sold for a day in Central Park for $60 each which were then estimated to be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the Banality of the Banality of Evil, which portrays a man dressed as a Nazi peacefully sitting and looking out over an already existing landscape from—and then donated back to—a charitable thrift shop. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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