How to Rob Banks for Dummies
A feature documentary about Joe Gibbons — the New York performance artist who turned bank robbery into his medium, and went to prison for it.
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A feature documentary about Joe Gibbons — the New York performance artist who turned bank robbery into his medium, and went to prison for it.
Joe Gibbons is a Lower East Side performance artist, MIT lecturer, and convicted bank robber. In a lifelong project of art-as-transgression, he filmed himself robbing banks, fed art-world audiences his crimes as material, and was eventually sentenced to prison for his most ambitious heist. How to Rob Banks for Dummies is a portrait of an artist for whom the canvas was a federal crime, and the curators were a jury.