A Banksy P.S.
26th January, 2010
One fun part about the Banksy screening was the speculation that Banksy would reveal himself. Was he there? Was he still in Utah? For just a second, I thought he was going to appear. At the screening, the Sundance lady announced the film and gave some introductory remarks. Then she said something like, “Ladies and Gentlemen, I present Banksy!” I got really excited and fumbled around for my Flip camera. The lights were still on in the theatre, and it wasn’t until they dimmed and the film started rolling that I realized that she just meant the movie.
Fred and I once met someone who claims they saw Banksy. He had gone to see the Banksy show in L.A. He was flying back (to London I think?) from the show, and he was reading Lauren Collins’s article in The New Yorker when he looked over at the person sitting next to him on the plane. The guy was wearing a hoodie, and he had paint on his hands. They made eye contact, and the guy swears that it was one of those moments where “he knew that I knew that he knew.” Who knows!
