An Evening Of Microcinema

Sunday, December 4th, 2011
7 o'clock PM
Tickets $10 {$8 for VPES Members}
Advanced tickets available online:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/214777

Please join us for an evening for Microcinema!

Featuring:
Kustom Kamera Kommandos - Dir. Bill Brown 2005
Forgotten Faces - Dir. Millie Paul 1969
Hub City - Dir. Bill Brown 1996
Who is Bozo Texino? - Dir. Bill Daniel 2005

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Who is Bozo Texino? is the picaresque chronicle of a 16-year search for the source of a ubiquitous rail graffitia simple sketch of a blank-staring character with an infinity-shaped hat and the scrawled moniker, "Bozo Texino"a drawing seen on railcars for over 80 years. Daniel rode freight trains across the West carrying a Super-8 sound camera and a 16mm Bolex, interviewing tramps and brakemen and in his quest 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 both as a subcultural documentary and a stylized fable on wanderlust, outsider identity, and escape.

"Bill Daniel's homegrown epic is as kinetic and raggedly beautiful as the trains he hopped to make it. Using the search for the origin of a near mythical example of railroad graffiti as a point of departure, Bill made a film about freedom as literal passage across the land. Corporations brand things to say they own them, but there are ways in which humans have marked things to say they can't be owned."
-- Jem Cohen