Who is Bozo Texino?
While riding freight trains and compiling oral histories from fellow riders and railroad workers he met along the way, Bill Daniel documented a phenomenon of monikers and mark-making once practiced extensively throughout the United States by people living and working on and around trains. The film Who is Bozo Texino? arose from Daniel’s fascination with a reoccurring signature—“Bozo Texino” accompanied by a cowboy with an infinity-sign hat and a cigarette. Daniel utilizes storytelling, mythmaking, and folklore to express themes of wanderlust, the formation of identity and community, and the success and failure of commodified labor.
Who is Bozo Texino? is supported by the Kohler Trust for Arts and Education, the Frederic Cornell Kohler Charitable Trust, Kohler Foundation, Inc., Herzfeld Foundation, and the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts.
