Bill Daniel (filmmaker)

[1] Daniel has collaborated with several artists from the Bay Area Mission School art movement, notably Margaret Kilgallen and has worked on multiple projects with underground director Craig Baldwin.

A quite select listing of the numerous locations Daniel has screened his films at (in person) includes Center for Documentary Studies in Durham NC, Houston's Aurora Picture Show, Mini-Cine in Shreveport, the Los Angeles Film Forum, the Luggage Store Gallery in San Francisco, Space 1026 in Philadelphia, Deitch Projects in NYC, and the New Image Art Gallery in Los Angeles.

With a goal of tracing the true identity behind Bozo Texino, whose iconic hand-drawn cowboy moniker has appeared on the sides of trains for nearly a century, Bill Daniel hopped boxcars with drifters and camped in hobo jungles, all the while collecting stories and images of a little-known American folk art tradition.

Documentary footage of the search for Noah's Ark combined with characters like a homeless preacher, a punk-pirate and other "water-squatters" explored themes of modern environmental collapse & survivalism.

Video installation using interview footage of working-class residents of the gulf coast fishing town Seadrift who are combating industrial pollution from a neighboring plastic plant.

Bozo Texino at the Cosmic Cowboy Concert