61-year-old American artist Joe Gibbons walked into a bank in New York on New Year's Eve. Armed with little more than a video camera, he handed the counter clerks a note asking them to give him money for his church. He walked out with $1,002. He was arrested in January. His defense: he wants to use the video of the robbery for a film. Yes, he is guilty of robbery, but this is about art. Gibbons is an experimental filmmaker who has used his own life as source material for his work for forty years.

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