Mark Boswell, the founder and the 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. Co-founder of the Alliance Film/Video Cooperative in 1993 (with William Keddell), the Anti Film Festival in 1994. Some of his most widely screened films are USSA: Secret Manual of the Soviet Politburger, (2001)[2] Agent Orange,[3] and the feature film The Subversion Agency (2004)[4]. 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[5]. He was awarded the 2004 International Media Art Award from The ZKM Museum in Karlsruhe Germany for his film The End of Copenhagen.[6] He has also lectured internationally on agit-prop cinema at the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles,[7] The Wolfsonian/FIU Museum Of Propaganda in Miami Beach, The Magis Film Conference in Italy,[8] and the Ruskin College of Art at Oxford University, England.[9]