Mark Boswell is the founder and leading theorist of the NOVA-KINO experimental cinema movement.[1]
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. He co-founded the Alliance Film/Video Cooperative in 1993 (with William Keddell) and the Anti Film Festival in 1994. Some of his most widely screened films are Unknown Unknown(s) (2009),[2] USSA: Secret Manual of the Soviet Politburger (2001),[3] Agent Orange,[4] the feature film The Subversion Agency (2004)[5] and the documentary 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero.[6]
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.[7] He was awarded the 2004 International Media Art Award from The ZKM Museum in Karlsruhe Germany for his film The End of Copenhagen.[8] KultKino, Boswell's five minute 1997 experimental short film, was included in the 1999 Venice Biennale. He has also lectured internationally on agit-prop cinema at the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles,[9] the Wolfsonian/FIU Museum Of Propaganda in Miami Beach, the Magis Film Conference in Italy,[10] and the Ruskin School of Art at Oxford University, England.[11] During the mid-nineties he edited numerous projects for Doris Wishman during the last phase of her career in Miami Beach.[12]
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