Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

I worry for my kids.

# And they make our TVs blind us #

I was driving like crazy.

I mean, I guess part of the power of Thierry

But, like, I think it'd be cool if you came up with us.

and people can see it.

He's kind of the rightful heir to Andy Warhol, in a way.

Now it seemed everyone

# And there's nothing here to bind you #

was just an inside joke

This hybrid form of graffiti was driven by a new generation

It's all the way on the side of your foot.

I could get him all the time,

NARRATOR: A few days later, Los Angeles awoke

Like, behind the gate.

so I rang the only person I knew in Los Angeles

It was the capturation.

and he couldn't make it that moment.

# It tricks you so you have no way to grow #

and putting it on top of couple building,

You listen to me.

and I am Mr. Brainwash.

We're gonna have a meeting. One thing.

This one, good.

since emigrating to the United States

and now that he had found it, he wasn't about to let it go.

He was... he was human.

I like to fly from one artist to another.

so they leave with it.

- No, I didn't know him. - Do you think he's dead, or...

and I started making that photocopy...

There was, like, walkie-talkies crackling everywhere,

We had the sort of attendance that you get for a decent show

Or things will turn bad.

that is a smiling face that's blinking an eye

and Paul Klee and...

I'm a ghost when I'm with them.

Me, as respecting him, you know,

disaster struck.

to take your souvenir photo.

the guy that was supposed to be helping me

I'm trying not to.

who's a cousin of Space Invader,

and making the thing and going,

He said he just needed some things built

I'm gonna do a flip.

so I wrote him a sentence, and I emailed it off.

in context as an entire body of work,

It was, like, kind of a vision that I saw.

because, you know, bill to pays,

I want to make it more like a show.

As he ventured further afield,

Shepard had already clocked up over a million hits

in one art show in my entire life.

I didn't ask him anything.

and make some art, you know, have a little show,

was, you know, one of the most interesting things about it,

So what do you do for a living?

even if his art does look quite a lot like everyone else's.

NARRATOR: So now, using the formula he had seen work so well

of turning 200 identical screen prints

You're coming with me.

and I start filming, I felt,

brought something to it

[slinky jazz music]

a major player in an explosive new movement

Bye, Gigi! Bye, Jackie!

# It's no way for life to start #

to run away as soon as we've done it,

No, no, but that's not. That's not graffiti.

He'd seen people do big art shows.

How'd you guys find out about this event?

# These lights in our hearts #

Can I take one picture before I go?

and one man who claimed he was from the FBI.

I drive you if you need to go anywhere.

but in ways, he was an accomplice,

start videoing the work.

NARRATOR: With his big day now upon him,

So you have a partner works with you, eh?

What about getting...

You have to make some decisions.

We're here to see Mr. Brainwash, bro.

because I learned from Obey and things like this,

NARRATOR: Following all the press coverage,

You know, they just took me away from everything happened.

I feel like, um...

You know, it sounded like he needed a little bit of help,

Even people who tell me, No, I don't want to be filmed,

If I can ask you to stop any recording that you're doing.

It's not straight! Up a bit.

You know, just... we need him.

looking like something out of the 1860s,

and it's all... it's all a make-up kind of way, you know?

It's all money.

when somebody shows you their work

even allowing him to film inside his studio

and somewhere you and... illegal,

# You got feelings in your heart? #

He was like kind of a Robin Hood or something.

And I said, I'm gonna make a street art documentary,

and I'm filming.

NARRATOR: But Banksy had more on his mind

NARRATOR: Barely Legal

To put a huge body of work together

I guess he became my friend.

and he comes up with the ideas on what to change them,

I'm kind of a ghost.

I thought, you know, that nobody was allowed to do this.

the vandalized phone box.

You know, the papi, it's the father of...

tagging along at Shepard's side

But the American news media could only see