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Sundance Monday wrap
The latest installment from the Kelly Williams of the Austin Film Festival, who’s attending Sundance. This report is based on his Monday screenings.
I ran into Austinite Bryan Poyser at a party for Film Inpendent on Monday. He may have one of the best press pieces I have seen this year at Sundance — a small pocket-size booklet that features interviews with the cast and crew accompanied by portraits by Matt Rebholz of Monofonus Press. I was unfortunately unable to attend the premiere on Sunday, but Bryan said he could not have asked for a better screening, noting that “the crowd laughed where we wanted them to and they gasped when we wanted them to.”
One of the more talked-about films so far was the late addition to the line-up, “Exit Through the Gift Shop,” a documentary by the mysterious street artist Bansky. The doc covers the street movement, following artists like Shepard Fairey, Space Invader and even Bansky himself, but Banksy turns the table and creates a documentary about the man who shot the artists at work for years and who later became the artist known as Mr. Brainwash. “Exit Through the Gift Shop” is a fast-paced ride, a film whose lead character is incredibly funny — even when he doesn’t realize it. After the film I walked down Main Street to find some of Bansky’s iconic work painted on the side of a local shop.
After a few parties, including one hosted by Magnolia Pictures, I ended the day with “The Violent Kind,” a film in the midnight section. The film was billed as sort of a biker/horror film and while it had plenty of blood, it turned into more of a science fiction film, something I did not see coming.
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