By emily
Feature |
| Screening date: | July, 2006 |
| Director: | Bill Daniel |
| Who Is Bozo Texino? is a documentary film about the 100-year-old tradition of hobo and railworker graffiti.
The project is the result of a 20-year study
of "monikers" by filmmaker/artist Bill Daniel and is created from hours of
16mm and super 8 film, most of it shot on freight trips across the western
US.
The film 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. The film also catches some of the
socioeconomic history of hobo subculture from its roots after the Civil War
to the present day. |
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Presented July 21, 2006
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By emily
Short |
| Screening date: | March, 2004 |
| Director: | Morgan Hampton |
| Look out Spielberg; the Hamptons are gunning for you. Morgan and Max
Hampton are a father/son team of El Granada-based filmmakers. When not
filmmaking, Max is a local middle school student. The Bottle is a
no-budget special effects tour de force. It involves a bottle
(natch), familiar coastside beaches, and, of course, a few space aliens. Max
and Morgan will be on hand to describe this and their many other filmmaking projects. |
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By emily
Feature |
| Screening date: | January, 2004 |
| Director: | Tim Lyn |
Winner - 'Spirit of Moondance' award at the prestigious 2003 Moondance International Film Festival in Colorado.
Eldra was also chosen as the UK entry in the 2003 Academy Awards, Best Foreign Language Film category.
Set in the 1930s, this is a beautiful Romeo and Juliet tale about two very different families in a small country village in Wales. The girl is a traditional Romany (gypsy) and the boy is a Welsh coal-miner's son and they take you into their innocent young hearts and dreams.
Eldra is an entrancing cinematic venture into unknown realms of fantasy paired with the realities of daily life in an ancient and distant land. |
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