A film premiered at Sundance last night about an artist that couldn’t be filmed, or wouldn’t. “Exit Through the Gift Shop” is about a French shopkeeper and an amateur director that wanted to make a documentary about the prolific, and famously secretive artist named Banksy. An artist who’s sold millions of dollars worth of artwork, taken over complete galleries without so much as showing his face in public, Banksy is sort of the superhero to the creative class, which is why this doc sounds so perfectly apt. The film is about the effort it took to try and film the phantom artist.

Billed as “the world’s first street art disaster movie,” it quotes Banksy saying, “It’s the story of how one man set out to film the unfilmable. And failed.” It’s even more amazing that sometime last Thursday, Banksy struck on Main St. in Park City — one of the most trafficked by filmmakers and cameramen almost all year in the tiny mountain town. The townsfolk want to cover it up, and there are petitions going around to save it. Regardless, if this film manages to sell like so many other Sundance films do, it will be yet another meta moment for Banksy’s art career — or will it be another work of art?

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