Mark Boswell

Mark Boswell, the founder and leading theorist of the NOVA-KINO experimental film movement. Born 1960 in Asheville, North Carolina, Boswell studied film, film theory and art history in Switzerland, France, Germany and the Florida Space Coast from 1984-1992. Co-founder of the Alliance Film/Video Cooperative in 1993 (with William Keddell), the Anti Film Festival in 1994. Recent films have been screened in the Cambridge Film Festival, U.K., The Milano Film Festival, Italy, The Transmediale Festival, Berlin, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, The Anna Akmotova Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, and the 10th Biennial of the Moving Image, Geneva, Switzerland. His films have screened in over 25 countries and translated into 6 different languages. Some of his most widely screened films are Unknown Unknown(s) 2009, USSA: Secret Manual of the Soviet Politburger, (2001) Agent Orange 2002) , and the feature film The Subversion Agency (2004). For many years Boswell has taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, The Ringling College of Art and Design, Florida, and the Pratt Institute in New York. He was awarded the 2004 International Media Art Award from The ZKM Museum in Karlsruhe Germany for his film The End of Copenhagen. He has also lectured internationally on agit-prop cinema at the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, The Wolfsonian/FIU Museum Of Propaganda in Miami Beach, The Magis Film Conference in Italy, and Oxford University, England. He is currently at work on his second feature film: Nova Conspiracy, an experimental documentary about the KGB and EPCOT.