BANKSY CREATES UNDERGROUND CINEMA TO SCREEN EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP After creating a serious amount of hooha at Sundance with his film Exit Through the Gift Shop, British graffiti artist Banksy kept the momentum going for the London premiere yesterday by deciding to forgo the usual glitzy Leicester Square cinemas and instead creating his own cinema to introduce British audiences to the film. Exit Through the Gift Shop will be screened until March 4th in a purpose-built cinema in a tunnel below Waterloo Station. Hailed as “London’s newest, darkest and dirtiest purpose-built cinema” the venue includes a popcorn stall, lounge bar, and “stunning” temporary toilet facilities. After the premiere yesterday the audience members were presented with tins of spray paint as they left the cinema, which is located in an authorised graffiti area. At the entrance billboards read “No sexism, no racism, no adverts,” and “You don’t have to be a gangster to paint here, so please don’t behave like one.” (Read full article on The Documentary Blog) Yeah, like Banksy would have held a premier the conventional way. Man I wish I was in London, more specifically, sitting in a comfy theater seat under the Waterloo Station right now.
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BANKSY CREATES UNDERGROUND CINEMA TO SCREEN EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP

After creating a serious amount of hooha at Sundance with his film Exit Through the Gift Shop, British graffiti artist Banksy kept the momentum going for the London premiere yesterday by deciding to forgo the usual glitzy Leicester Square cinemas and instead creating his own cinema to introduce British audiences to the film.
Exit Through the Gift Shop will be screened until March 4th in a purpose-built cinema in a tunnel below Waterloo Station. Hailed as “London’s newest, darkest and dirtiest purpose-built cinema” the venue includes a popcorn stall, lounge bar, and “stunning” temporary toilet facilities.
After the premiere yesterday the audience members were presented with tins of spray paint as they left the cinema, which is located in an authorised graffiti area. At the entrance billboards read “No sexism, no racism, no adverts,” and “You don’t have to be a gangster to paint here, so please don’t behave like one.”
(Read full article on The Documentary Blog)

Yeah, like Banksy would have held a premier the conventional way. Man I wish I was in London, more specifically, sitting in a comfy theater seat under the Waterloo Station right now.

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    I did an art project on Banksy last semester. I thought that I was going to hate having ‘grafitti’ as the topic of the...
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    I’m fairly sure I’m going to London this year, and a good part of my trip will be spent hunting for Banksy.
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    brieflynoted Wow, somehow this passed me by and I almost missed it. I read loads about his shenanigans at Sundance, and...
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    FUCKING GENIUS. Saw this...fucking film! Poignant
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    serious amount of hooha at Sundance with his film Exit Through...Gift Shop, British...
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