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I was putting my life on...

NARRATOR: As Thierry persevered

I really liked him.

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

[mutters] Fuck!

is this unlikely...

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

The way it started,

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

Thierry was ordered to slow things down,

They were so... you know?

When I met Zeus,

You don't know Space Invader?

So it felt right to at least make something

I never went home again.

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

I do think that the whole phenomenon

and left Thierry there filming it.

Thierry was constantly meeting street artists.

Film from this side over here.

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

saying that Thierry had found this huge warehouse

It was like a need to be captured.

saying, This will be a great place

It just seemed to go on and on.

But this is, like, Space Invader.

Red light. I stay.

All of our trains are stopped.

and I was just having fun,

He goes in the corner

I don't have nothing with you guys,

Hello, French people.

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

Banksy had camouflaged his rented elephant

so you don't really know where to start.

I never met the cat till tonight,

which paintings to frame and hang.

If Thierry can pull it off, then amazing,

the more important it seems;

it's like being an artist overnight.

to transform thousands of hours of unwatched tapes

[breezy rock music]

# These lights in our street are ours #

with a remote control

# And they make our TVs blind us #

like people who's not at Disneyland

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

and they really believe it.

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

They look at me like, Who is this?

of this camera-happy Frenchman.

and having 100 people working for him,

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

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

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

I was filming Space Invader, but I wanted more.

So how did you like L.A. Weekly?

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

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

He had arrived with his crew

but I brought Thierry over to London

So I said to Thierry,

and iconic visual style.

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

Um, you already got your interview,

but he doesn't care.

NARRATOR: But the ultimate validation

was that Thierry's street art documentary

and change 'em around.

You are a disgusting monster!

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

almost 200 pieces in a riot of themes and styles.

and sort of try to, you know, come out

Thierry set about creating his own alter ego

to see where you're gonna put it.

It's Lady Di instead of the queen.

or whether it's that he's passionate

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

You need to get your film out.

I mean, he was, like, just incredible.

would arrive with a bang.

in the gallery's landscape room.

with one exception.

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

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

and he's kinda crazy.

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

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

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

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

and you can get caught, you know?

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

that I thought might be able to help him out.

three guys behind me; four guys behind me.

Now no serious contemporary art collection

I choose a wall 'cause I like it,

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

the grandfather of Batman.

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

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

but street art has a short lifespan,

for what was now widely tipped to be

I'm like a bird.