| Texas-born filmmaker Bill Daniel will be at USC June 16 for the screening of Who is Bozo Texino?, his black-and-white, 55-minute-long documentary.
The film begins at 8 p.m. in Gambrell Hall Auditorium. Admission is $5.
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| Bill Daniel rides the rails |
Daniel has made a career out of documenting life on the margins of society. Nearly 20 years ago, he set out to track a legendary freight-train graffiti artist and found a vast subculture of hobo graffiti. He documents this journey in Who is Bozo Texino?
Most of the film was shot during freight trips across the western United States. The film includes interviews with some of the railroad's greatest graffiti legends, including Colossus of Roads, The Rambler, Herby (RIP), and the granddaddy of them all, Bozo Texino. The range of the interviews, and the film's style deal with both the cliches and the harsh realities of tramp life.
The film also catches some of the socioeconomic history of hobo subculture from its roots after the Civil War to the present day. In researching hobo culture, Daniel found the written histories fraught with myth, and was initially frustrated by the apparent lack of verifiable truth to much of the lore.
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