The History of Nova-Kino

 

Nova Kino was founded in 1994 in Miami Beach, Florida by Mark Boswell in order to align avant-garde cinema conceptually, as well as technically, with the emerging digital revolution. The first Nova-Kino result was a five minute super-8 film entitled "KULTKINO" that premiered in 1996 at the ANTI-FILM FESTIVAL. The NOVA-KINO Manifesto was written in San Francisco in 1999 in preparation for the first major retrospective of Nova-Kino works at Craig Baldwin’s Other Cinema. Major influences on Nova-Kino are Dziga Vertov, Bruce Conner, Jean-Luc Godard, Guy Debord, Chris Marker, Doris Wishman, and Craig Baldwin. Since 1997, Nova-Kino films have been screened in over 25 countries and translated or subtitled into French, German, Russian, Finnish, and Japanese.

Influential members of Nova-Kino over the years include the film archivist Barron Sherer, sound artist Ben Wolcott, composer Curd Duca, writer Bart Plantenga, producer David Letourneau, writer Anton Koslov & art theorist Susanne Boswell.

Influental actors include Greg Shumann, Larry Robinson, Anders Lundin and Jason Shurte.

Mark Boswell biography.

Born 1960 in Asheville, North Carolina.
Studied Film, Film Theory, Dada & Surrealism at various institutions inside Switzerland, France, Germany and the Florida Space Coast from 1984-1992. Co-Founded The Alliance Film/Video Cooperative in 1993 (with William Keddell)
Founded The Anti Film Festival in 1994
New Genres Department Manager and Film Teacher at
San Francisco Art Institute 1997-2004
Current Faculty at Pratt Institute New York 2005-2007
Visiting Faculty Ringling School Sarasota, Fl. 2003-2007

Complete Filmography

The Mongoloid 1991
Vast Floridias 1991
The Football Man 1992
The Job (or) The Home Movies of V.I. Lenin 1993
State Sponsored Cinema 1994
Words Eat Death 1995
The Memory Corporation 1996
KULTKINO 1998
Galaxie 500 1999
Maintenance 1999
Liquidation of the Wild West 2000
Golf Caddies and Madness 2000
USSA: Secret Manual of the Soviet Politburger 2001
Agent Orange 2002
The Life and Times of Harry D. Boswell 2002
DEEP BLUE 2003
The Subversion Agency 2003
The Stars and Stripes Forever 2004
The End of Copenhagen 2004
JFK 2005
The St. Petersburg Paradox 2006

Awards
*“Best Experimental Feature Film” THE SUBVERSION AGENCY
2004 Denver Underground Film Festival.
*“International Media Art Award” 2004 THE END OF COPENHAGEN
ZKM Museum Karlsruhe, Germany.
*Honorable Mention DEEP BLUE
2004 Transmediale Berlin, Germany.
*“Best of Show” Compilation Video AGENT ORANGE
2003 Transmediale Berlin.
*2003 AGENT ORANGE “Official Nomination” for IMKP Prize
ZKM Museum Karlsruhe, Germany
*2002 USSA: SECRET MANUAL OF THE SOVIET POLITBURGER
“Official Nomination” for IMKP Prize
ZKM Museum Karlsruhe, Germany
*1996 Honorable Mention “Best Experimental Film”
THE MEMORY CORPORATION
Central Florida Film Festival Orlando, Florida
*1992 Crystal Reel Award “Best Creative Concept” Screenplay for TERMINUS
(co-written with Steve Wallen) 35mm Featurette Cocoa Beach, Florida

Collections
San Francisco Art Institute
ZKM Museum
Dokumenta Archive
Transmediale Archive
National Center of Contemporary Art,
St. Petersburg, Russia

Selected Screenings 2004-2006

2006
The St. Petersburg Paradox Fast Forward/Rewind Festival Miami, Florida
THE JOB “Russia: Significant Other”
National Center For Contemporary Art St. Petersburg, Russia
The End of Copenhagen 10 City U.K./Europe Tour organized by
Picture This Limited, Arnolfoni. Bristol, England.

2005
The Subversion Agency “Artist and Arms Exhibition”
Moscow Center of Contemporary Art Moscow, Russia
The Subversion Agency Jakarta O.K. Video Biennial Jakarta
National Center of Contemporary Art Jakarta, Indonesia
The End of Copenhagen Recent International Media Art Prize Winners
Goethe Institute Barcelona, Spain
The End of Copenhagen Noass Gallery Riga, Latvia.
The End of Copenhagen Lausanne Museum of Modern Art, Switzerland

Agent Orange Museum of Modern Art Buenos Aeries, Brazil
USSA: Secret Manual of The Soviet Politburger The Chechnya Emergency Biennial
Paris, France. Bolzano, Italy. Riga, Latvia. Talinn, Eastonia. Vancouver, Canada
USSA: Secret Manual of The Soviet Politburger. Galleria del Arte Moderna.
Roma, Italy.
The Stars and Stripes Forever (Matmos) Faculty Show, Pratt Institute. Brooklyn, NY.
2004
The Stars and Stripes Forever (Matmos) Civil War c.d. Matador Records
The Stars and Stripes Forever (Matmos) “Matador at 15” cd/dvd compilation
Agent Orange Los Angeles Freewaves Biennial Los Angeles, CA.
The Subversion Agency Transmediale International Media Art Festival. Berlin.
The Subversion Agency Art Moscow, Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia
The Subversion Agency Dom Center Moscow, Russia.
The Subversion Agency Budart Festival. Tomsk, Siberia.
The Subversion Agency Sound Forest Festival Riga, Latvia.
The Subversion Agency Electrofringe Festival, Newcastle, Australia.
The Subversion Agency Denver Underground Film Festival. Denver.
The Subversion Agency Avanto Media Art Festival Helsinki, Finland.
The Subversion Agency 10th Biennial of the Moving Image Geneva, Switzerland
The Subversion Agency International Recontres Paris/Berlin Paris, France
The Subversion Agency Fast Forward/Rewind Festival Miami, Florida.
The Subversion Agency Select Media Art Festival Chicago, Illinois
The Subversion Agency The Other Cinema San Francisco, California.
Deep Blue Split Film Festival Split, Croatia
Deep Blue Transmediale Berlin, Germany
Deep Blue Image Forum Festival Tokyo, Japan
Deep Blue Avanto Media Art Festival Helsinki, Finland
Agent Orange appeared in the following locations as part of
Transmediale ’03“Best Of Program”
Goethe Institut Vilnius (lt) Goethe Institut Hongkong (hk) ACMI, Melbourne (au)College of Fine Arts, Sydney (au) The Physics Room, Christchurch (nz)Massey University - School of Fine Arts, Wellington (nz) Moving Image Centre, Auckland (nz) Caixa Forum, Barcelona (es) Max Mueller Bhavan, New Dehli (in)Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore (in) Centrum Sztuki Wspolczesnej - Kino.Lab, Warsaw (pl) Max Mueller Bhavan, Kolkata/Kalkutta (in) Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow (uk) Max Mueller Bhavan, Chennai/Madras (in) Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai/Bombay (in) Art In General, New York, New York