Mark Boswell(I)
- Director
- Editor
- Camera and Electrical Department
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.