Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

and making the thing and going,

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

He'd seen people do big art shows.

As he ventured further afield,

This hybrid form of graffiti was driven by a new generation

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

Or things will turn bad.

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

so they leave with it.

But the American news media could only see

# And there's nothing here to bind you #

You know, just... we need him.

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

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

You have to make some decisions.

a major player in an explosive new movement

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

There was, like, walkie-talkies crackling everywhere,

and putting it on top of couple building,

I was driving like crazy.

since emigrating to the United States

I didn't ask him anything.

I guess he became my friend.

[slinky jazz music]

because, you know, bill to pays,

brought something to it

It's not straight! Up a bit.

This one, good.

I feel like, um...

# And they make our TVs blind us #

and I'm filming.

and people can see it.

who's a cousin of Space Invader,

Now it seemed everyone

I'm kind of a ghost.

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

I could get him all the time,

How'd you guys find out about this event?

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

and I start filming, I felt,

I mean, I guess part of the power of Thierry

I drive you if you need to go anywhere.

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

So what do you do for a living?

of turning 200 identical screen prints

He was... he was human.

NARRATOR: Barely Legal

and Paul Klee and...

What about getting...

NARRATOR: But Banksy had more on his mind

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

It's all money.

NARRATOR: Following all the press coverage,

and I am Mr. Brainwash.

# It's no way for life to start #

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

Shepard had already clocked up over a million hits

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

I'm trying not to.

and he couldn't make it that moment.

even allowing him to film inside his studio

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

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

in context as an entire body of work,

the vandalized phone box.

NARRATOR: A few days later, Los Angeles awoke

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

To put a huge body of work together

# These lights in our hearts #

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

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

You listen to me.

and one man who claimed he was from the FBI.

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

Can I take one picture before I go?

looking like something out of the 1860s,

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

NARRATOR: With his big day now upon him,

I want to make it more like a show.

because I learned from Obey and things like this,

Me, as respecting him, you know,

He said he just needed some things built

disaster struck.

Bye, Gigi! Bye, Jackie!

but in ways, he was an accomplice,

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

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

when somebody shows you their work

and somewhere you and... illegal,

I'm gonna do a flip.

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

# You got feelings in your heart? #

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

We're gonna have a meeting. One thing.

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

He was like kind of a Robin Hood or something.

I worry for my kids.

So you have a partner works with you, eh?

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

I like to fly from one artist to another.

Like, behind the gate.

and I started making that photocopy...

that is a smiling face that's blinking an eye

in one art show in my entire life.

was just an inside joke

It was the capturation.

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

You're coming with me.

start videoing the work.

the guy that was supposed to be helping me

to take your souvenir photo.

so I rang the only person I knew in Los Angeles

tagging along at Shepard's side