Last year, a Banksy piece showed up on a wall in Chinatown. But letting graffiti stand on a wall for over a year is clearly saying something. Normally, non-commissioned graffiti (also referred to as “vandalism”) is monitored by the city, and cleaned reasonably swiftly. The clout that Banky’s street art carries in San Francisco is notable. You may have seen the Banksy piece donning a rooftop wall in North Beach at Columbus and Broadway, but if you haven’t, I suspect you’ll still have some time – it’s been there for about a year so far.
Will call tickets may be picked up at The Cary Box Office beginning one hour prior to the movie."If at first you don't succeed - call an airstrike." (Southeast corner of Columbus & Broadway). SAVING BANKSY features interviews with some of the top names in Street Art and Graffiti including Ben Eine, Risk, Revok, Niels ‘Shoe’ Meulman, Blek Le Rat, Anthony Lister, Doze Green, Hera, and Glen E Friedman. However, with Street Art quickly becoming the hottest commodity on the auction block, these artists are rethinking their public art work in an effort to outsmart the commercialization of graffiti. Their public work has always been subject to destruction by property owners, law enforcement, and other graffiti artists. “What would you do if you found a million dollar Banksy spray-painted on the side of your house?” Since the birth of modern graffiti, Street Artists and graffiti writers have embraced the brevity of their public art. SAVING BANKSY opens by serving its plot up for debate. The film’s narrative is driven by multiple perspectives from Street Artists who paint graffiti illegally, and from art dealers who remove their graffiti from public walls for profiteering purposes.
Saving Banksy is a rare backstage look at the elusive world of Street Art and Graffiti.
His efforts to save the Rat are met with threats from city officials, snubs from museums and a flurry of six-figure offers from art dealers eager to get their hands on the painting. SAVING BANKSY is the story of one misguided art collector’s attempt to save Banksy’s famous “Haight Street Rat” from destruction and the auction block.
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