Banksy and the Rise of Outlaw Art

[Played March 16 as part of AARP's Movies for Grownups and available on Amazon Prime Video and various VOD and digital platforms.] Mark Holgate narrates Elio Espana's fascinating, informative, insightful, inspirational, thought-provoking, 108-minute, 2020 documentary that examines the career of elusive, legendary, popular, pranking, creative, original, anonymous British artist Banksy and social activist known for pulling off wildly surprising stunts that ultimately increased the value of his artwork and the history of modern street art that began in the 1960s and consists of candid commentary by artist Ben Eine, Banksy biographer Will Ellsworth-Jones, authors/artists Alan Ket and Scape Martinez, graffiti artist Kelly ‘Risk' Graval, art promoter Steve Lazarides, author and Tangent Books publisher Richard Jones, author/artist/curator Felix Braun, pop culture journalist Simon Reynolds, Bristol graffiti pioneer John Nation, and historian/author/curator Claire Dobay Rifelj.
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