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The Man Who Stole Banksy

There are enough interesting ideas in Marco Proserpio’s The Man Who Stole Banksy to fill two or three fascinating documentaries

The Young Folks
  • Archive - Festival 34
  • Director: Marco Proserpio
  • Italy 2018
  • 90 minutes
  • Italian, English, Arabic
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

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


  • Director Marco Proserpio
  • Production Marco Proserpio, Filippo Perfido
  • Script Marco Proserpio, Filippo Perfido, Christian Omodeo
  • Cinematography Jacopo Farina
  • Editing Domenico Nicoletti
  • Music Federico Dragogna, Matteo Pansana
  • Festivals Tribeca, Sheffield Doc
  • Narration Iggy Pop
  • Source Elle Driver, Paris