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Banksy documentary no hoax, Thierry Guetta lawsuit suggests

Some have considered its central story too wild and fanciful to have genuinely been drawn from real life, especially since the name next to the director’s credit happened to be that of arch-prankster Banksy. But further evidence has emerged that Oscar-nominated documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop was not a hoax after a court ruled against its subject, street artist Thierry Guetta, in a high-profile copyright case.

 

Guetta, a French immigrant in Los Angeles obsessed with street art, starts out as the purported maker of the 2010 film and ends up being its central figure after he reinvents himself as artist Mr Brainwash and puts on his own show. One of the pieces, displayed as part of the latter’s Life Is Beautiful exhibition (which provides the film’s dramatic twist), landed Guetta in court.

 

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