Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

When you gonna film someone else?

- Shut the fuck up. - [laughs]

becoming a street artist,

Thierry now started traveling the world with Shepard,

[metallic clanging]

And off he went back to Los Angeles,

[speaking in native language]

At that point, I thought I'd better leave the park.

to plan the next phase of his artistic career.

he was, like, painting, like, shadows on the streets

Now Tate Britain in Pimlico

There is nothing to do there?

I mean, it's beautiful, but it's in the closet.

$110,000, $120,000,

and it was magic kind of way.

Your mother is dead. Like this.

until 8:00 in the morning,

Film! Film! Come closer.

of trying to keep everything completely under wraps,

was radiating far beyond the world of street art.

What is the film?

[thudding clatter]

I mean, the thing is that most all art

but sculptures and installations too.

He's funny-looking. No.

He figured, I want to do something just as great.

a pile good or a pile not good.

So you draw. You know how to draw?

And then he actually got us into the space

to transform a large run-down warehouse

You guys need to go.

[dog yipping ferociously]

flicking through a cable box of 900 channels.

Say hello to the French people.

just eight hours before the doors opened,

[wheels rattling]

while I was on a billboard or a rooftop,

and Thierry had landed right in the middle of it.

No... the camera is on the table.

I don't know how to play chess,

Usually, I just...

he was always very diligent about climbing,

to the one missing star of his film,

[searing drone]

Banksy had just given him

I would say $24,000.

So on the understanding

I didn't want to disappoint Banksy.

# Don't let fear of me then fool you #

Having spent years

Banksy invited Thierry to England.

NARRATOR: But Thierry was still finding distractions

because with time, you'll see my creativity.

had stumbled into an intriguing underground world,

but obviously, that hadn't stopped Thierry,

I had cameras set up everywhere.

And after, I was like...

You know, it's one of those kind of things, man.

NARRATOR: L.A.'s art fans watched, spellbound,

Thierry made himself indispensable,

You know, What is he gonna do to us?

[car horns honking]

Many of the biggest names in the street art world

Good. How are you doing?

I took picture of me holding a camera,

I was saying, It's okay; it's my cousin.

and when I got there,

He does very, very good graffiti.

My phone rings.

and we didn't tell anyone else about it,

animal rights activists are outraged

and do a review, because...

and bought me a phone,

wanted to know the answer to one question:

but there's probably a moral in there somewhere.

commemorate his life

And the thing goes, Vvvvt!

And then that's Keith Haring, who I'm not a fan of.

I guess Thierry showed up at a time

[bizarre percussive cacophony]

didn't fold, didn't buckle;

And in my head,

Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

He was pretty much obsessed.

but I'm excited about it.

may I have your attention, please?

but the artist himself remained as elusive as ever.

to make their mark by any means necessary.

had a little problem of sleeping sometime.

- Comfortable? - Yep.

got turned back at immigration,

He was following the artists,

I just loved it, you know,

that he make some art,

- It's not recording. - That's fine.

these once-temporary works

or if he copies Shepard Fairey,

so now the film is kind of about him.

for the world's biggest street artists,

[Children Wailing]

they took me away.

and on condition that I could check the tapes afterwards.

NARRATOR: After four hours of questioning,

and I don't know how to stop...

Later, as an adult raising his own family,