Exit Through the Gift Shop Page #3

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Andre the Giant.

Combining Andre's face

with a command to obey,

Shepard had already clocked up

over a million hits

around the world.

And although

he didn't know it yet,

his world was about

to collide head-on

with Thierry's.

Shepard Fairey

was at Kinko's on Vine,

and Space Invader had something,

a trouble with something,

and he couldn't make it

that moment.

But me, I wanted

to meet the guy,

so what I did,

I went and meet him.

- Invader.

- No, Thierry.

I didn't ask him;

I just filmed.

That was my thing.

I didn't ask him anything.

When I came,

I came with a camera,

and I start filming.

So why did you do him?

You don't know?

- Uh...

- Oh, you knew the guy.

He's funny-looking.

No.

Oh, you didn't know him?

- No, I didn't know him.

- Do you think he's dead, or...

Oh, he's dead, yeah.

Yeah?

So you have a partner works

with you, eh?

Yeah.

This is Amanda.

Amanda, how are you doing?

- Hi. Nice to meet you.

- Nice to meet you too.

So how long

you been doing this?

Oh, yeah?

That's a lot of paper.

Yeah.

What do you do?

I film.

NARRATOR:
That night when

Shepard did meet Space Invader,

he took him on a tour

of the city.

Thierry was there

filming everything

that Space Invader was doing

and then, of course,

once I was with Space Invader,

everything I was doing.

You should probably

put an invader

up on Hollywood Boulevard.

What do you think, Thierry?

Yeah.

NARRATOR:
And when Invader

returned to France,

Thierry simply carried on,

tagging along

at Shepard's side

whenever the artist

went out in the streets.

- 2:
00... if he's gonna be out

past 2:
00,

he needs to call at 2:00.

Okay.

I'll make him.

Otherwise, he gets beat,

and he sleeps on the couch.

Amanda always thought

that he was weird,

but I said it's great

that we're getting

a lot of this stuff on tape.

And for me to have someone there

as a lookout was always good.

Keep your eye out for the cops.

I finally did train him

to not turn the light on

while I was on a billboard

or a rooftop,

where he was gonna

blow my cover.

No, no, no, don't use that.

Yeah.

NARRATOR:
After ten months

of Thierry's constant presence,

the question inevitably arose:

What exactly

was Thierry filming for?

It's cool, though, right?

NARRATOR:

And that was the moment

Thierry came up with a big idea

that would dictate

the path of his life

for the next eight years.

In the beginning,

you're, like, thinking,

like, "The guy's gonna film me

one time, two times,

three times, five times,

ten times, twelve times,"

but after a while,

he's like,

"What you gonna do?"

Because usually people film

a day, two days, three days,

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