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Media Forum of the Moscow International Film Festival was nominated to the All-Russian Contemporary Visual Art Competition for awarding the prize Innovation in contemporary visual art

Media Forum of the Moscow International Film Festival was nominated to the All-Russian Contemporary Visual Art Competition for awarding the prize Innovation in contemporary visual art. The contest was launched in 2005 by the Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography and the National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA).

In 2010 Media Forum — the most uncommon program at the Moscow cinema festival — celebrates its 11th anniversary. The most avant-garde film experiments, video art and performative multimedia art — multiscreen installation of Yang Fudong, video works of Eve Sussman and Jasper Just, Interactive performance of Ryoichi Kurokawa — were shown at the Media Forum. Media Forum has its own contest of video works involving artists from more than twenty countries and its own lecture programm, during which world headliners hold their master classes, round tables and club events.

Subject-matter of the festival 2009 is "New Imaginary: expanding the cinema bothers". Stressing the idea of syntesis of cinema and visual arts and new ways of creation of visual works, Media Forum always proves that cinematography is in fact much wider than is shown in audience halls. It may be interactive and multiscreen, it may develop a special space enviroment, which naturally includes a spectator, and movies themselves may last for days resembling classical paintings.