Saving Banksy

It's not art unless you can sell it for lots of money

A documentary that uses Banksy's San Francisco rat as a lens to examine art commodification, institutional gatekeeping, and the tension between street art's rebellious origins and its market value.

Internationally known graffiti artist, Banksy, left his mark on San Francisco in April 2010. Little did he know that this act of vandalism would spark a chain of events that includes one of his rats being removed from a wall, Museums ignorantly turning down a free Banksy street work, and a NY gallerist who has made it his business model to remove Banksy street works from all over the globe doing whatever it takes to get the rat in his possession.