Banksy Does New York Page #3

Synopsis: Documentary chronicling the famed street artist's "31 works of art in 31 days" in New York city.
Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Chris Moukarbel
Production: Matador Content
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
NOT RATED
Year:
2014
79 min
Website
594 Views


Suddenly, someone posts

an address on Twitter.

Okay, here it is.

After a false alarm,

we eventually find it.

What do you think?

It's cool because we're one

of the first to get here.

Once

Everyone after photographic proof

before too many others discover it.

The attention was too much

for the building's owners.

They started covering it up,

despite one rich man's best attempts.

$1,000 for the door right now.

And I'll buy you a new door...

Home depot... today.

His last piece sold for $400,000,

and it was a piece of stucco.

So, I would be glad

to hang that up on my wall.

Oh, man. Come on, man.

He didn't get his way.

Just like that, it was gone.

Instagram users hot on the banksy trail

posted pictures

of workers taking down the door,

hashtagged #dolladollabills.

All right, and now we come up

to the section that

everyone's been waiting for.

This is the banksy portion

of the auction.

So, people are taking banksy's work,

they're cutting them out of the wall,

and they're selling them

without authorization

and making a lot of money.

But what you see around banksy

is not money that banksy

is making day after day,

though that's the impression

in the press,

and that's the impression

that the gallery people who have

taken his rather stolen work

and put it up at auction

would like to give.

And we're selling it for $170,000

to Megan Thorne, bidders.

My name is Stephan keszler.

I'm the owner of the keszler gallery.

Southampton is the bathing

and recreation area of New York...

Hedge-fund guys and people

with very good income.

So here, we have one

of the most famous banksy works

from Bethlehem, the west bank.

The name is "wet dog."

In 10 years, this will be millions.

And if you compare this with basquiat

or with Keith haring

or even with Damien hirst,

you pay for something in

this size that is important...

$10 million, $20 million.

$6,200.

A few arguments by people is,

"oh, it's not banksy's intention

that this is in a gallery

or this is in a private collection.

My answer is always,

"it was not Picasso's intention

when he painted a beautiful woman

or gave a piece to the hairdresser

as a present

that it shows 40 years later

or 30 years later at

an auction house for millions."

I think, at a certain point,

when he does it,

it's not his business anymore.

Banksy is never

authenticating street art.

He puts every work he does

on his website.

So, if it's on his website,

it's an authentication of his work.

But I think if he goes to bed at night

and he thinks about what we do,

he's grateful about what we do.

You want to see this?

We got contacted from a middleman

that those banksy works,

the "wet dog"

and the "stop and search"...

From west bank to New York.

"Stop and search."

It's very smart, what he does.

I hope one day he will admit

that I'm good for him,

and then we can work together

with all the hustle.

This would be my dream.

With banksy,

you never know happens tomorrow.

And we hope we will do this

for a long time.

Did you see "house of cards"?

- Yeah.

- I love Kevin spacey.

Morning!

Good morning!

What day of the week is it?

Is it Wednesday?

It's Wednesday.

I noticed a lot more traffic

on the way in,

so maybe it's the...

I'm already nervous

about banksky, aren't you?

Yep, I'm already nervous,

looking around.

Let's see if there's anything there.

We're in Times Square.

We just got word there is a gigantic...

- It's a war horse!

- ...Banksky piece...

A war horse!

...on the lower east side.

We're headed there right now.

We got a tip on Twitter.

Hey, puppy.

Come on.

Keep shooting.

Hotel 2-6, crazy horse 1-8.

Crazy horse 1-8,

this is hotel 2-6. Over.

All right, we just

engaged all eight individuals.

1-8, we also have one individual,

appears to be wounded

trying to crawl away.

He's getting up.

Maybe he has a weapon down in his hand?

No, no, I haven't seen one yet.

Come on, buddy.

All you gotta do is pick up a weapon.

Bushmaster, crazy horse 1-8.

For more than 2 1/2 years,

the wire service reuters

has been trying to find out

what happened to their two staff members

on this street

in the suburb of new Baghdad.

Wikileaks says this is what happened.

Hotel 2-6, crazy horse 1-8,

have five to six individuals

with ak-47s.

Light them all up.

Come on. Fire.

Roger.

Keep shooting.

Keep shooting.

Hotel 2-6, crazy horse 1-8.

Crazy horse 1-8,

this is hotel 2-6. Over.

From a distance,

you hear the voices on the tape

watch as the wounded

try to crawl to help,

but when help arrives...

Come on.

Clear.

Even from high above,

the harsh reality

becomes evident as the troops

that arrive claim two children, wounded.

You see them carry their small

bodies and call for help.

The response on the tape...

To tie it into something

that's so real and to, I guess,

refocus people's attention

not just on him,

but to use that attention...

To refocus it on this larger issue of,

like, "what are we paying attention to?"

Banksy managed to create

this huge installation

on the lower east side

without anyone seeing him.

There was a blue tarp for a while up.

Then the blue tarp came down.

I think it's kind of cool that

he's, like, this elusive artist.

Banksy has promised

to create a new work of art

every day this month in New York,

and no matter where the art pops up,

it's sure to cause lots of drama

on the streets.

These two images

were posted not long ago

on banksy's website.

It's graffiti, but depicting a beaver

chewing down a street sign,

but the caption

says "east New York," so...

Yes. so, there's a hint.

You want to take a picture,

it's gonna cost something,

or the sh*t could just get broke.

$100,000 portrait.

We're trying to get this up.

But before we ruin it,

we'd rather leave it so y'all

can come and take a picture.

See, I don't give

a... they see it.

They're not taking no pictures.

These guys in the east

New York section of Brooklyn

are actually charging people $5

to take pictures of graffiti.

You want to take a picture,

it's gonna cost something...

And some people are actually paying.

We're trying to get some bread.

This is my hood.

So, you want us to pay

to take a picture?

Yes.

You came for what you came

for... to take that picture.

$20 ain't worth that for you?

I could step on this sh*t.

It don't matter to me.

Y'all wouldn't come here

if this wasn't here.

It's worth more to you

that this is here than to me.

People were going to the Bronx,

probably a part of the Bronx

they've never been to.

I mean, people went to east New York,

and they were going to a part of queens

that I think most new yorkers

have never been to.

He really shines a light on topics

that people quite often

don't want to talk about.

And one that he shined

a light on in this experience

is gentrification, you know,

the fact that he was putting

his artwork in places in New York City

that art collectors,

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