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{{Short description|American experimental documentary filmmaker, installation artist and curator}}
'''Bill Daniel''' (born 1959) is an American [[Experimental film|experimental]] [[documentary film]] artist, [[photographer]], [[film editor]], and [[cinematographer]]. He is also an [[installation art]]ist, [[curator]] and former [[Zine|zine publisher]]. His full-length film, ''Who is Bozo Texino?'' about the tradition of [[hobo]] and railworker boxcar [[graffiti]] was completed in 2005 and has screened extensively throughout the United States and Europe. Bill 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]]. Film/video artist [[Vanessa Renwick]] of the [[Oregon Department of Kick Ass]] has been a frequent touring partner, collaborator and co-curator.
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| name = Bill Daniel
| image = Bill Daniel, Austin, Texas, 1982.png
| alt = Black and white image of Bill Daniel in his 20s wearing long-sleeved plaid shirt over striped t-shirt leaning against stoop (out of frame) looking down while cyclist (his brother Lee Daniel) rides by with front tire in air. Base of streetlight in upper right corner of frame. Sidewalk scene in front of 504 W 24th Street, Austin, Texas
| caption = Daniel pictured in [[Austin, Texas]], 1982
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1959}}
| birth_place = [[Houston]], Texas
| other_names =
| alma_mater = [[University of Texas at Austin]]
| occupation = [[Cinematographer]]
| years_active =
| known_for =
| notable_works = ''Who is Bozo Texino?''
| relatives = [[Lee Daniel]]
}}


'''Bill Daniel''' (born 1959) is an American [[Experimental film|experimental]] [[documentary film]] artist, [[photographer]], [[film editor]], and [[cinematographer]]. He is also an [[installation art]]ist, [[curator]], and former [[Zine|zine publisher]]. His full-length film, ''Who is Bozo Texino?'' about the tradition of [[hobo]] and railworker boxcar [[graffiti]] was completed in 2005 and has screened extensively throughout the United States and Europe.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.citypaper.com/film/review.asp?rid=10441|access-date=2021-06-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070220001802/http://www.citypaper.com/film/review.asp?rid=10441|archive-date=2007-02-20|title=Baltimore Sun: Baltimore breaking news, sports, business, entertainment, weather and traffic}}</ref> 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]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Maloney|first=Tim|title=Baldwin, Craig – Senses of Cinema|url=http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2006/great-directors/baldwin/|access-date=2021-06-29|language=en-US}}</ref> Film/video artist [[Rankin Renwick]] of the Oregon Department of Kick Ass has been a frequent touring partner, collaborator and co-curator.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Bill Daniel|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0199584/|access-date=2021-06-29|website=IMDb}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2006-10-21|title=Deitch|url=http://deitch.com/projects/sub.php?projId=148|access-date=2021-06-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061021222708/http://deitch.com/projects/sub.php?projId=148|archive-date=2006-10-21}}</ref>
Bill Daniel has received numerous awards including grants from the Film Arts Foundation, Creative Capital, the R&B Feber Charitable Foundation for the Beaux Arts and residencies at the [[Yerba Buena Center for the Arts]], the [[Headlands Center for the Arts]] and the [[Center for Land Use Interpretation]]. His films have been featured at numerous film festivals including the prestigious [[Viennale]] or Vienna International Film Festival, [[Portland Art Museum|The Portland Art Museum]]'s Northwest Film and Video Festival (where his Selective Service System Story was awarded best documentary film), and the True/False Festival, where he has been a panelist. In 2006, Bill Daniel was a judge for the Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival.


In 2008, he was awarded a [[List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2008|Guggenheim Fellowship]] for film.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation {{!}} Bill Daniel|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/bill-daniel/|access-date=2021-06-29|language=en-US}}</ref>
A wide variety of locations have served as venues for Bill Daniel's film and installation works, from urban rooftops and abandoned drive-in movie theaters to [[Jonas Mekas|Jonas Mekas']] [[Anthology Film Archives]] and the [[Independent Film Channel]]. A very select listing of the numerous locations Bill Daniel has screened his films at (in person) include 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 New Image Art Gallery in Los Angeles.


== Background ==
Bill Daniel was born in Houston, Texas and has lived and worked in Austin, New York, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Portland and Shreveport. He attended college at the [[Ut austin|University of Texas at Austin]] where he majored in Marketing. His brother [[Lee Daniel]] is also a cinematographer and is best known for his work with director [[Richard Linklater]].
Daniel was born in [[Houston]]; he has lived and worked in Austin, New York, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Portland and Shreveport. He attended college at the [[Ut austin|University of Texas at Austin]] where he majored in marketing. His brother [[Lee Daniel]] is also a cinematographer.<ref>{{Cite web|title=BILL DANIEL|url=http://www.cinemad.iblamesociety.com/2007/01/bill-daniel.html|access-date=2021-06-29}}</ref>


== Selected Films & Installations==
== Selected films and installations==
A wide variety of locations have served as venues for Bill Daniel's film and installation works, from urban rooftops and abandoned drive-in movie theaters to [[Jonas Mekas|Jonas Mekas']] [[Anthology Film Archives]] and the [[Independent Film Channel]]. 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.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2007-09-30|title=San Francisco - Arts & Entertainment - Port in a Storm|url=http://news.sfweekly.com/2003-12-17/calendar/port-in-a-storm/|access-date=2021-06-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930221845/http://news.sfweekly.com/2003-12-17/calendar/port-in-a-storm/|archive-date=2007-09-30}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Anno Domini//the second coming of Art & Design|url=https://www.galleryad.com/Exhibits/05.10.02/LuckyBumPressRelease.pdf|url-status=live|access-date=June 29, 2021|website=Galleryad|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040930183418/http://galleryad.com:80/Exhibits/05.10.02/LuckyBumPressRelease.pdf |archive-date=2004-09-30 }}</ref>

=== Who is Bozo Texino? (2005) ===
[[Image:Bozo Texino.jpg|thumb|Bozo Texino at the Cosmic Cowboy Concert]]
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This 55 min. [[Experimental film|experimental]] [[documentary film]] was shot primarily in black & white [[8 mm film|8mm]] & [[16mm|16mm film]] and was subsequently digitally edited. With a goal of tracing the true identity behind Bozo Texino, whose iconic hand-drawn cowboy logo has appeared on the sides of trains for nearly a century, Bill Daniel hopped [[boxcar]]s with drifters and camped in [[hobo]] jungles, all the while collecting stories and images of a little-known American [[folk art]] tradition.
This 55 min. [[Experimental film|experimental]] [[documentary film]] was shot primarily in black & white [[8 mm film|8mm]] & [[16mm|16mm film]] and was subsequently digitally edited. With a goal of tracing the true identity behind Bozo Texino, whose iconic hand-drawn cowboy [[Moniker (graffiti)|moniker]] has appeared on the sides of trains for nearly a century, Bill Daniel hopped [[boxcar]]s with drifters and camped in [[hobo]] jungles, all the while collecting stories and images of a little-known American [[folk art]] tradition.<ref name=":0" />


* ''Soul's Harbor'' (2003)
=== Soul's Harbor (2003) ===
Installed at San Francisco's [[Yerba Buena Center|Yerba Buena Center for the Arts]], this [[mixed-media]] [[Installation art|installation]] featured an [[Rv|RV]] partially converted into a [[houseboat]] with projected video images on one side. Documentary footage of the search for [[Noah's ark|Noah's Ark]] combined with characters like a homeless preacher, a punk-pirate and other "water-squatters" explored themes of modern environmental collapse & [[survivalism]].
Installed at [[San Francisco|San Francisco's]] [[Yerba Buena Center|Yerba Buena Center for the Arts]], this [[mixed-media]] [[Installation art|installation]] featured an [[Rv|RV]] partially converted into a [[houseboat]] with projected video images on one side. Documentary footage of the search for [[Noah's ark|Noah's Ark]] combined with characters like a homeless preacher, a punk-pirate and other "water-squatters" explored themes of modern environmental collapse & [[survivalism]].


* ''Seadrift Texas 1990'' (2002)
=== Seadrift Texas 1990 (2002) ===
Video [[Installation art|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. The video segments were shown framed by pictures and windows on a mock living room wall at [[Tacoma, Washington|Tacoma's]] [[Tollbooth Gallery]].
Video [[Installation art|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. The video segments were shown framed by pictures and windows on a mock living room wall at [[Tacoma, Washington|Tacoma's]] [[Tollbooth Gallery]].


* ''The Girl on the Train in the Moon'' (2001)
=== The Girl on the Train in the Moon (2001) ===
Hobo campfire [[Installation art|installation]] with film projections at [[Deitch Projects]] gallery in New York for "Widely Unknown" group show. Also shown on the nationwide "Lucky Bum Film Tour" with Vanessa Renwick, this installation included footage from what would become the full-length film ''Who is Bozo Texino?''.
Hobo campfire [[Installation art|installation]] with film projections at [[Deitch Projects]] gallery in New York for "Widely Unknown" group show. Also shown on the nationwide "Lucky Bum Film Tour" with Rankin Renwick (then known as Vanessa Renwick), this installation included footage from what would become the full-length film ''Who is Bozo Texino?''.<ref name=":1" />


* ''Selective Service System Story'' (1998)
=== Selective Service System Story (1998) ===
Created for the [[Independent Film Channel|Independent Film Channel's]] Split Screen series, this documentary revisits the 1970 short film ''Selective Service System'' and interviews Dan Lovejoy and Warren Haack, who made the graphic depiction of an individual's attempt to avoid the [[Vietnam War]] [[Conscription in the United States|draft]] as film students at [[San Francisco State University]].
Created for the [[Independent Film Channel|Independent Film Channel's]] Split Screen series, this documentary revisits the 1970 short film ''Selective Service System'' and interviews Dan Lovejoy and Warren Haack, who made the graphic depiction of an individual's attempt to avoid the [[Vietnam War]] [[Conscription in the United States|draft]] as film students at [[San Francisco State University]].

== Awards and recognition ==
Daniel has received numerous awards including grants from the Film Arts Foundation, Creative Capital, the R&B Feber Charitable Foundation for the Beaux Arts and residencies at the [[Yerba Buena Center for the Arts]], the [[Headlands Center for the Arts]], and the [[Center for Land Use Interpretation]]. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008.<ref name=":2" /> His films have been featured at numerous film festivals including the prestigious [[Viennale]] or Vienna International Film Festival, [[Portland Art Museum|The Portland Art Museum]]'s Northwest Film and Video Festival (where his Selective Service System Story was awarded best documentary film), and the True/False Festival where he has been a panelist. In 2006, Daniel was a judge for the Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2007-02-04|title=Grantee Page {{!}} Sunset Scavenger - Bill Daniel|url=http://www.channel.creative-capital.org/grantee_208.html|access-date=2021-06-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070204142727/http://www.channel.creative-capital.org/grantee_208.html|archive-date=2007-02-04}}</ref>


==References==
==References==
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*{{Cite news
| author=Johnny Ray Huston
| title=Man of Many Marks
| newspaper=San Francisco Bay Guardian
| date=September 28, 2005
| url=http://www.sfbg.com/39/52/art_marks.html
| postscript=<!--None-->
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*{{Cite journal
| author= Tim Maloney
| title=Craig Baldwin
| journal= Senses of Cinema
| issue=40
| date=July–September 2006
| url=http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2006/great-directors/baldwin/
| postscript= <!--None-->
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*{{Cite news
|author=Bret McCabe
|title=Film: ''Who is Bozo Texino?''
|newspaper=Baltimore City Paper
|date=June 14, 2006
|url=http://www.citypaper.com/film/review.asp?rid=10441
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*{{Cite news
|author=Hiya Swanhuyser
|title=Port in a Storm
|newspaper=San Francisco Weekly
|date=December 17, 2003
|url=http://news.sfweekly.com/2003-12-17/calendar/port-in-a-storm/
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*{{cite press release|title=Lucky Bum Film Tour|publisher=Anno Domini|date=May 10, 2002|url=http://www.galleryad.com/Exhibits/05.10.02/LuckyBumPressRelease.pdf
|format= [[PDF]] | accessdate=2007-02-14}}

*{{cite web |url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0199584/
|title=Bill Daniel on the Internet Movie Database (IMDB)| accessdate=2007-02-14}}

*{{cite web |url=http://www.cinemad.iblamesociety.com/2007/01/bill-daniel.html
|title= Bill Daniel interview in Cinemad Magazine| accessdate=2007-02-14| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20070318052100/http://www.cinemad.iblamesociety.com/2007/01/bill-daniel.html| archivedate= 18 March 2007 <!--DASHBot-->| deadurl= no}}

*{{cite web |url=http://channel.creative-capital.org/grantee_208.html
|title= Creative Capital| accessdate=2007-02-14 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070204142727/http://www.channel.creative-capital.org/grantee_208.html |archivedate = February 4, 2007}}

*{{cite web |url=http://uncutvideo.aol.com/videos/61e471494bf86f43a13a3a1f202f8152
|title=UnCut Video Coastside Film Society trailer for ''Who is Bozo Texino''| accessdate=2007-02-14}}{{dead link|date=August 2013}}

*{{cite web |url=http://www.viennale.at/cgi-bin/page.pl?id=2373;lang=en
|title=Vienna International Film Festival Interview with Bill Daniel | accessdate=2007-02-14}}

*{{cite web
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|title=Widely Unknown @ Deitch Projects
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*{{cite web |url=http://vimeo.com/3403689 |title= Brief video interview in Braddock, PA by Sam Gould (February, 2009)| accessdate=2010-02-25}}


==External links==
==External links==
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* [http://www.othercinema.com Craig Baldwin's Other Cinema]
* [http://www.othercinema.com Craig Baldwin's Other Cinema]
* [http://www.odoka.org Oregon Department of Kick Ass]
* [http://www.odoka.org Oregon Department of Kick Ass]
* [http://www.angelfire.com/planet/bozotexino/ Bozo Texino Stock Exchange]
* [https://www.angelfire.com/planet/bozotexino/ Bozo Texino Stock Exchange]
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Bill Daniel
Black and white image of Bill Daniel in his 20s wearing long-sleeved plaid shirt over striped t-shirt leaning against stoop (out of frame) looking down while cyclist (his brother Lee Daniel) rides by with front tire in air. Base of streetlight in upper right corner of frame. Sidewalk scene in front of 504 W 24th Street, Austin, Texas
Daniel pictured in Austin, Texas, 1982
Born1959 (age 64–65)
Houston, Texas
Alma materUniversity of Texas at Austin
OccupationCinematographer
Notable workWho is Bozo Texino?
RelativesLee Daniel

Bill Daniel (born 1959) is an American experimental documentary film artist, photographer, film editor, and cinematographer. He is also an installation artist, curator, and former zine publisher. His full-length film, Who is Bozo Texino? about the tradition of hobo and railworker boxcar graffiti was completed in 2005 and has screened extensively throughout the United States and Europe.[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.[2] Film/video artist Rankin Renwick of the Oregon Department of Kick Ass has been a frequent touring partner, collaborator and co-curator.[3][4]

In 2008, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for film.[5]

Background

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Daniel was born in Houston; he has lived and worked in Austin, New York, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Portland and Shreveport. He attended college at the University of Texas at Austin where he majored in marketing. His brother Lee Daniel is also a cinematographer.[6]

Selected films and installations

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A wide variety of locations have served as venues for Bill Daniel's film and installation works, from urban rooftops and abandoned drive-in movie theaters to Jonas Mekas' Anthology Film Archives and the Independent Film Channel. 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.[7][8]

Who is Bozo Texino? (2005)

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Bozo Texino at the Cosmic Cowboy Concert

This 55 min. experimental documentary film was shot primarily in black & white 8mm & 16mm film and was subsequently digitally edited. 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.[1]

Soul's Harbor (2003)

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Installed at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, this mixed-media installation featured an RV partially converted into a houseboat with projected video images on one side. 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.

Seadrift Texas 1990 (2002)

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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. The video segments were shown framed by pictures and windows on a mock living room wall at Tacoma's Tollbooth Gallery.

The Girl on the Train in the Moon (2001)

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Hobo campfire installation with film projections at Deitch Projects gallery in New York for "Widely Unknown" group show. Also shown on the nationwide "Lucky Bum Film Tour" with Rankin Renwick (then known as Vanessa Renwick), this installation included footage from what would become the full-length film Who is Bozo Texino?.[8]

Selective Service System Story (1998)

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Created for the Independent Film Channel's Split Screen series, this documentary revisits the 1970 short film Selective Service System and interviews Dan Lovejoy and Warren Haack, who made the graphic depiction of an individual's attempt to avoid the Vietnam War draft as film students at San Francisco State University.

Awards and recognition

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Daniel has received numerous awards including grants from the Film Arts Foundation, Creative Capital, the R&B Feber Charitable Foundation for the Beaux Arts and residencies at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and the Center for Land Use Interpretation. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008.[5] His films have been featured at numerous film festivals including the prestigious Viennale or Vienna International Film Festival, The Portland Art Museum's Northwest Film and Video Festival (where his Selective Service System Story was awarded best documentary film), and the True/False Festival where he has been a panelist. In 2006, Daniel was a judge for the Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival.[9]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Baltimore Sun: Baltimore breaking news, sports, business, entertainment, weather and traffic". Archived from the original on 2007-02-20. Retrieved 2021-06-29.
  2. ^ Maloney, Tim. "Baldwin, Craig – Senses of Cinema". Retrieved 2021-06-29.
  3. ^ "Bill Daniel". IMDb. Retrieved 2021-06-29.
  4. ^ "Deitch". 2006-10-21. Archived from the original on 2006-10-21. Retrieved 2021-06-29.
  5. ^ a b "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Bill Daniel". Retrieved 2021-06-29.
  6. ^ "BILL DANIEL". Retrieved 2021-06-29.
  7. ^ "San Francisco - Arts & Entertainment - Port in a Storm". 2007-09-30. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2021-06-29.
  8. ^ a b "Anno Domini//the second coming of Art & Design" (PDF). Galleryad. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2004-09-30. Retrieved June 29, 2021. {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help)
  9. ^ "Grantee Page | Sunset Scavenger - Bill Daniel". 2007-02-04. Archived from the original on 2007-02-04. Retrieved 2021-06-29.
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