Off the MAP: Who is Bozo Texino?
posted: August 20, 2008
Screening: Who is Bozo
Texino? Bill Daniel presents a show of underground documentary films
Q&A with the filmmaker afterwards
Wednesday Nov 16
Doors open 7pm
Films start at 8pm
Wedge Gallery (see directions below)
$5
Filmmaker and tramp Bill Daniel is back in the van and touring the USA with a
program of new work, including his recently completed documentary on the secret history of hobo and railworker graffiti, Who is Bozo Texino? The film has been wowing audiences of punks, geezers,
foamers and graffiti toughs all over the West Coast this summer. The film was featured in the Viennale International Film Festival in Austria in
October.
“Daniel and Renwick makes some of the
liveliest work on the microcinema circuit, wherein film, video art, and music collide with edgy, confrontational, unpredictable and often
exuberant intensity”
- Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post
“I am not going to hold back any enthusiasm… it is the best movie I have ever seen.”
- Josh from Edmonton
Headlining is Daniel’s 56min documentary on the secret history of hobo and railworker graffiti, called
Who is Bozo Texino? Shooting over a period of 16 years, Daniel rode freights across the West, gathering interviews and clues to the identities of
many of the most legendary boxcar artists while discovering a vast underground folkloric practice that has existed for over a century. This
gritty black and white documentary tells the mostly-factual account of the epic quest and unlikely discovery of railroading's most mysterious
artist.
Also screeening:
Waldo Point by Saul Rouda, 1970, 20 min. A stoned and song-filled
documentary shot in Sausalito’s hippie houseboat community. An utterly unique and authentic snapshot of ‘60’s freedom shot by a
young film student who was living moored out in San Francisco Bay in a floating utopia of hand-made houseboats. Shaggy pirate-hippies drink wine,
pass joints, and discuss building boats from garbage.
Britton S. Dakota by Vanessa Renwick,
2004, 7 min. Depression-era children are hypnotized by the camera in this re-discovered imagery from 1938. Score by Johnne Eschleman.
Portland-based filmmaker Vanessa Renwick is Director of Affairs of the Oregon Dept. of Kick Ass. (www.odoka.org)
Who is Bozo
Texino?
