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MF 2008 Jury Jesper Just (USA-Denmark)
Daniil Lebedev (Russia)
Nina Fisher, Maroan el Sani (Germany)
Bertha Sichel (Spain)
The director of the audio-visual department of the Reina Sofia museum, international art curator, researcher specialized in Media Arts, writer for art publications, consultant to foundations, cultural institutions, private and public collections on art acquisitions and exhibitions.
Yang Fudong (China)
Victor Miziano (Russia)
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Jesper Just is a Danish artist, living and working in Copenhagen and New York, NY. From 1997 to 2003 he studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Just works exclusively in film, shooting on a variety of film stock, including 8 mm, 16 mm and 35 mm. Works dating from 2003 and before were recorded in digital video. All later works are shot on film and then transferred to HD video. The resulting images are dense and atmospheric. Their prominent soundtracks are conceived specifically for each film in cooperation with different musicians. His works have been shown throughout Europe and the United States, including: the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2005), the Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL; and the Witte de With in Rotterdam, The Netherlands .
Artist, designer, producer and film director. As TV designer and art director has worked with various Russian TV channels. Cofounder of the Sinij Sup (Blue Soup) art group. As a member of Sinij Sup he has participated in numerous film and video festivals and exhibitions of contemporary art world-wide. 
Nina Fischer and Maroan el Sani live and work in Berlin and Sapporo. The large number of international solo and group exhibitions they have participated in include Gwangju Biennale (1995 / 2002 / 2008), Istanbul Biennale (2007), Sydney Biennial (2002), Manifesta 4, Frankfurt (2002), Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, (1999), "Tokyo-Berlin" Mori Art Museum, Tokyo / Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (2006). Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1998, (solo), Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, 2005, (solo), Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, 2007 (solo), Galerie Eigen+Art, Leipzig, 2008 (solo).
Yang Fudong was born in Beijing (b. 1971) and graduated from the China Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou. Filmmaker Yang Fudong has created some of the most staggeringly beautiful works of independent cinema to come out of China. Exquisitely framed and filmed in b&w 35 mm, Yang's work has an anachronistic feel, combining the lyricism of Chinese scroll painting, with the loose expressiveness of nouvelle vague, all mixed with the stark tableau of Jim Jarmusch whom Yang cites as something of an inspiration. His critically acclaimed films reflect on the conundrums of idealism and ideology.
Victor Miziano is a respected expert on the contemporary art-stage, curator of multiple exhibitions and international biennales. One of the curators of the international biennale "Manifesta I" (1996), chief curator of the Russian pavilion at the Venetian biennales 1995, 2003, chief curator of the pavilion of Central Asia ("Achieve of current interest") at the 51st biennale in Vienna. Curator of the section "Moscow" at the 25th biennale in San-Paulo (2002). Since 1993 - editor-in-chief of "Khudozhestvennyi Zhurnal" /Artistic Magazine (Moscow). he is also an author of numerous articles and books on theory and practice in contemporary art.
