![]() ![]() ![]() Thompson took the time to chat with MovieMaker about the challenges the duo had both in making the film (“…it’d be safe to say, along with a pretty sizable collection of the graffiti community, hated us.”) and in pursuing traditional distribution (“Nobody was going to hang themselves out there for a low/no budget film coming in from outside of their goldfish bowl”). Second, the effort it would take to find a buyer-getting it restored, authenticated and evaluated, all of which would require gate crashing the business world that’s sprung up around the counterculture icon’s art-would make for an interesting documentary.įour years later, co-directors Thompson and Alper Cagatay’s debut film, How to Sell a Banksy, was finally complete. First, there was a potentially huge amount of money to be made in selling the piece, which Thompson had acquired for nothing by scraping it off the nearby bridge that was its original home. In 2007, when Christopher Thompson came across a work of art by Banksy-the infamous, anonymous street artist whose work sells for hundreds of thousands of dollars, though he “installs” it free of charge-he saw his acquisition of the piece as a twofold opportunity. ![]()
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