Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

Film from this side over here.

Hello, French people.

I take the camera... I take him...

You are a disgusting monster!

almost 200 pieces in a riot of themes and styles.

I was so much focused on it that I put all my money in it.

I was filming Space Invader, but I wanted more.

looking for sculptors or artists who could work in papier-mâché.

I mean, I don't know how to make a film,

giving Thierry his first insight into the value of his work.

with a remote control

It's just so much work to do, prices, and...

was like a bit of a release for me, you know?

or whether it's that he's passionate

and they really believe it.

and you can get caught, you know?

but then, there aren't supposed to be any rules,

Thierry was ordered to slow things down,

The way it started,

I never went home again.

for what was now widely tipped to be

the grandfather of Batman.

It's, like, a piece that I made.

'cause what I do is in a bit of a legal gray area,

and I was just having fun,

# These lights in our street are ours #

with one exception.

so you don't really know where to start.

They were so... you know?

I never met the cat till tonight,

He had arrived with his crew

that I thought might be able to help him out.

They look at me like, Who is this?

it's like being an artist overnight.

was that Thierry's street art documentary

Um, you already got your interview,

I was putting my life on...

You don't know Space Invader?

three guys behind me; four guys behind me.

It was like a spiral, and I just fall in it.

and having 100 people working for him,

and sort of try to, you know, come out

I don't have nothing with you guys,

Red light. I stay.

I mean, he was, like, just incredible.

It's Lady Di instead of the queen.

like people who's not at Disneyland

and they're all in, like, fairly bad English.

# And they make our TVs blind us #

If Thierry can pull it off, then amazing,

and left Thierry there filming it.

I'm gonna put some more cans all the way...

to see where you're gonna put it.

NARRATOR: As Thierry persevered

but street art has a short lifespan,

I'm like a bird.

Even taking pictures, he would do it like...

which paintings to frame and hang.

[breezy rock music]

I do think that the whole phenomenon

[mutters] Fuck!

they all tell you, Yeah, he doesn't have a phone,

Thierry set about creating his own alter ego

So it felt right to at least make something

the more important it seems;

All of our trains are stopped.

is this unlikely...

I choose a wall 'cause I like it,

and iconic visual style.

But this is, like, Space Invader.

it was like having the key of getting all these people.

to transform thousands of hours of unwatched tapes

I mean, we had to, 'cause, you know,

would arrive with a bang.

but he doesn't care.

NARRATOR: But the ultimate validation

Banksy had camouflaged his rented elephant

Thierry was constantly meeting street artists.

All the tape that I film, even if it was good,

You need to get your film out.

in the gallery's landscape room.

but before long, his stencils were appearing all over Britain.

Now no serious contemporary art collection

So I said to Thierry,

When I met Zeus,

but I brought Thierry over to London

So how did you like L.A. Weekly?

He goes in the corner

saying that Thierry had found this huge warehouse

It just seemed to go on and on.

of a lot of the final logistics that needed to happen.

And obviously, for that, you go to jail for ten years.

It was like a need to be captured.

So I think a lot of the people in the art world

So it was, like, that feeling that it was, like, a danger,

so I don't really know what the moral is.

I really liked him.

saying, This will be a great place

and I was gonna throw it off a building, just like...

and change 'em around.

Thierry's huge success and arrival in the art world.

and he's kinda crazy.

of this camera-happy Frenchman.