Portland Documentary & eXperimental Film Festival

Shot entirely aboard speeding freight trains and in secret hobo jungles, Who is Bozo Texino? documents a twenty-year never-ending rail journey in dogged pursuit of the true identity of the world’s greatest boxcar artist. Daniel uncovers a 100-year-old tradition of hobo and rail worker graffiti and includes interviews with some of the railroad’s greatest graffiti legends: Colossus of Roads, The Rambler, Herby (RIP) and the granddaddy of them all, Bozo Texino. Here is the everyday grit, myths, mulligan stews, hobo gatherings and, above all, the mis-understood and fascinating history of a hobo subculture that could only have been made by a wanderlust spirit like Bill Daniel.