Banksy Does New York

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Banksy Does New York is a documentary directed by Chris Moukarbel (Me at the Zoo). Partnering with HBO, the filmmaker utilizes a croud sourced, found footage type of style to chronicle the British street artist’s takeover of the Big Apple.

On Oct. 1, 2013, the elusive British street artist known as Banksy launched a self-proclaimed month-long residency in New York City, posting one unique exhibit a day in an unannounced location, sparking a 31-day scavenger hunt both online and on the streets for Banksy’s work. Capturing this month of madness, BANKSY DOES NEW YORK incorporates user-generated content, from YouTube videos to Instagram photos, from New Yorkers and Banksy hunters alike, whose responses became part of the work itself, for an exhilarating, detailed account of the uproar created by the mysterious artist.

An interesting thing of Moukarbel’s style is that he didn’t need to be in New York to capture the event. “I wasn’t in New York. I knew of Banksy’s residency from the news, but I didn’t really get the same full-throttle media explosion of being in town. I had previously done a film that HBO had acquired called ‘Me at the Zoo,’ which also used a lot of user-generated content from the web and told a story that already existed in a public space. It seemed like a good fit to apply that style to make this film.”