Outdoor urban cinema: movies by Bill Daniel and Dan Garner in Artisan's Court, empty lot in 500 block of Texas Street, Th, Ap 19, 7:30 pm

Bill Daniel: Who is Bozo Texino?
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An airing of filmmaker Bill Daniel's "Who is Bozo Texino?," as well as some of his other projections and a piece by multi-media artist Dan Garner will be presented en plein air Thurs, Ap 19th, in Artisan's Court (the lot on Texas st next to 516soundstage and across from the Courthouse), says Susan Garner. The show starts at 7:30pm. The cost is $5.

Who is Bozo Texino? chronicles the search for the source of ubiquitous railroad graffiti. Daniel's film uncovers a secret society and its underground universe of hobo and railworker graffiti, and includes interviews with legendary boxcar artists Coaltrain, Herby, Colossus of Roads, and The Rambler. During his freight-riding, 16-year quest Daniel discovered the roots of a folkloric tradition that has gone mostly unnoticed for a century. Taking inspiration from Beat artists Robert Frank and Jack Kerouac, the film functions as both a sub-cultural documentary and a stylized fable on wanderlust and outsider identity.

"I was drawn to the subject by the universal graffiti impulse and the classic, corny notion of freight train blues escape." – Bill Daniel, San Francisco-based, experimental documentarian

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Bill Daniel film: Who is Bozo Texino? Lil Joes, Th, Ap 28

Bill Daniel

Bill Daniel is part of the new energy bar that local youths have been munching on the weekends. He's a rambling filmmaker and photographer whose last abode was Portland, OR.

Thursday, Ap 28, he will show a film in progress, a hobo documentary called Who is Bozo Texino? The site is Lil Joes Tavern, says Rob Peterson (230-9740). Texino starts at 7:45.

When has this region ever had so much film activity? Is there an apocalypse looming over Toledo Bend?