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What about getting...

How'd you guys find out about this event?

and Paul Klee and...

NARRATOR: With his big day now upon him,

To put a huge body of work together

NARRATOR: But Banksy had more on his mind

He'd seen people do big art shows.

to take your souvenir photo.

I'm trying not to.

Can I take one picture before I go?

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

# It's no way for life to start #

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

This hybrid form of graffiti was driven by a new generation

in one art show in my entire life.

You're coming with me.

It's not straight! Up a bit.

so I rang the only person I knew in Los Angeles

So you have a partner works with you, eh?

NARRATOR: Following all the press coverage,

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

so they leave with it.

and people can see it.

# And they make our TVs blind us #

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

I drive you if you need to go anywhere.

He was... he was human.

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

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

of turning 200 identical screen prints

I guess he became my friend.

even allowing him to film inside his studio

You have to make some decisions.

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

I was driving like crazy.

He said he just needed some things built

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

So what do you do for a living?

start videoing the work.

and putting it on top of couple building,

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

the guy that was supposed to be helping me

You listen to me.

tagging along at Shepard's side

This one, good.

But the American news media could only see

I want to make it more like a show.

and he couldn't make it that moment.

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

because I learned from Obey and things like this,

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

Now it seemed everyone

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

since emigrating to the United States

Bye, Gigi! Bye, Jackie!

It was the capturation.

disaster struck.

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

Or things will turn bad.

was just an inside joke

I'm gonna do a flip.

but in ways, he was an accomplice,

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

There was, like, walkie-talkies crackling everywhere,

I didn't ask him anything.

a major player in an explosive new movement

because, you know, bill to pays,

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

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

when somebody shows you their work

I feel like, um...

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

and I'm filming.

# You got feelings in your heart? #

He was like kind of a Robin Hood or something.

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

that is a smiling face that's blinking an eye

brought something to it

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

Shepard had already clocked up over a million hits

Like, behind the gate.

You know, just... we need him.

and one man who claimed he was from the FBI.

I'm kind of a ghost.

and I start filming, I felt,

I could get him all the time,

As he ventured further afield,

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

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

[slinky jazz music]

I like to fly from one artist to another.

and making the thing and going,

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

# And there's nothing here to bind you #

and somewhere you and... illegal,

Me, as respecting him, you know,

I worry for my kids.

in context as an entire body of work,

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

We're gonna have a meeting. One thing.

It's all money.

the vandalized phone box.

NARRATOR: Barely Legal

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

and I started making that photocopy...

# These lights in our hearts #

and I am Mr. Brainwash.

who's a cousin of Space Invader,

NARRATOR: A few days later, Los Angeles awoke

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

I mean, I guess part of the power of Thierry

looking like something out of the 1860s,

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