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The Stormtrooper Scandal review: How an absurd Star Wars scam laid bare the stupidity of the art world, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: What director Stuart Bernard inadvertently revealed in this film is how fake the entire art world has now become.
Artist and former special forces soldier Bran Symondson said, in the art scam documentary The Stormtrooper Scandal, that he knew a couple of people felt 'disgruntled' when their work was traded online for thousands of pounds without their permission. The man accused of perpetrating the scam (though he insisted he was simply the unwitting face, a pawn of online criminals) was dealer and chancer Ben Moore, who achieved mild infamy as 'the Pink Stormtrooper' — attending art events in the spray-painted armour of a Star Wars soldier. Artist and former special forces soldier Bran Symondson (pictured) said, in the art scam documentary The Stormtrooper Scandal, that he knew a couple of people felt 'disgruntled' when their work was traded online for thousands of pounds without their permission
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