TRASA's Visual and Performance Art Program presents:

Who is Bozo Texino?
a film by Bill Daniel

Monday, September 25, 2006, 9pm, doors at 8:30
$5-10 sliding scale

Who is Bozo Texino? is a film on the 100-year-old tradition of hobo and railworker graffiti by Portland, OR-based filmmaker Bill Daniel. The result of a 20-year study, the film is fabricated from hours of 16mm and super 8 film, most of it shot on freight trips across the western US. Featuring interviews with some of the railroad's greatest graffiti legends, Who is Bozo Texino? examines both the beauty and the harsh realities of tramp life, and provides a stunning look into a culture born from the search for freedom.

http://www.billdaniel.net/who_is_bozo_texino/

Also screening:

Britton S. Dakota by Vanessa Renwick: Depression-era children
are hypnotized by the camera in this re-discovered imagery from 1938. Score by Johnne Eschleman.

“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

On line reviews:

http://www.microcosmpublishing.com/manifesto/

http://www.jigsawlounge.co.uk/film/content/view/241/1/

http://www.sfbg.com/39/52/art_marks.html