NOVA KINO FILMS
mark boswell
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THE LOST AND FOUND BUREAU OF TAJIKISTAN
2O MINUTE FILM/40 MINUTE LECTURE
HISTORY
The project began in 2014, when I was invited to Dushanbe, Tajikistan
to co-lead a Symposium on Found-Footage filmmaking organized by the Moldavian Curator Stefan Rusu. Rusu had discovered a lost archive of Soviet era 16mm propaganda films. Through a George Soros Foundation grant, he was able to invite selected artists from Central Asia (Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmanistan, Kazakstan, and Kyrgystan) to participate in the seminar entitled “Re-Imagining the New Man.” My role was to teach the visiting artists the history and the technique of found-footage filmmaking. The symposium ended with a public screening of the ten films produced there for the project.
I was invited to give a power point presentation of the original project in Tajikistan, where I described in detail each step of the Symposium coupled with photos from the 2 week project.
2025 Yale Slavic Film and Languages Department
I was invited by Anna Tropiknova from Yale to discuss the project and screen some of the films in the Alice Cinema on the campus.
