At the 34th Haifa International Film Festival, a doco-film by Marco Proserpio, with Iggy Pop, Carlo McCormick.
A conversation with Marco Proserpio will follow the screening.
From Bethlehem to the bank. Banksy, the art trickster, appeared (unobserved, as usual) on the West Bank in 2007 to decorate walls in a gesture that mocked the Israeli occupation. When the satirical image of an Israeli soldier checking a donkey’s papers was found offensive, that wall painting was removed. Later it turned up for sale. But who actually owned it? Had Banksy himself become the victim of a nasty scheme to enrich the art market that he had been attacking for years?
- Marco Prosepio’s doc is a rarity, an Italian independent film. It’s also a rare look at how even renegades like Banksy can be subverted by the force of the market, as street art – like it or not – becomes too valuable to keep on the streets.
Narrated by the inimitable Iggy Pop
Feature-Length Debut
In Italian, English and Arabic, with Hebrew and English subtitles.
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Wednesday, September 26th 2018, at 12:00
Haifa Cinematheque
Shderot HaNassì 142 – Haifa