Tut’s Fever Movie Palace
Tut’s Fever is a working movie theater and art installation created by Red Grooms and Lysiane Luong, an homage to the ornate, exotic picture palaces of the 1920s
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Behind the Screen
Museum of the Moving ImageThe Museum's core exhibition immerses visitors in the creative and technical process of producing, promoting, and presenting films, television shows, and digital entertainment.
The Jim Henson Exhibition
Museum of the Moving ImageThis dynamic experience explores Jim Henson’s groundbreaking work for film and television and his transformative impact on culture.
Refreshing the Loop
Refreshing the Loop continues Museum of the Moving Image’s tradition of displaying GIFs in our passenger elevator. This new iteration places artists who have been widely known for their GIFs for more than two decades in conversation with selected artists who have gained notable popularity in the last few years.
Horrible Sites: Makeup and Production Design for The Exorcist
With material drawn from MoMI’s permanent collection, this exhibit explores the film’s production and makeup design, detailing how a stylish townhouse in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., and an innocent young girl were transformed into sites of horror.
Mr. Yellow Sweatshirt
Shot in the Roosevelt Ave/Jackson Heights station, this installation video captures the tide of New Yorkers streaming through an entrance to the subway system in what the filmmakers refer to as a “collective ballet.”
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Eva Davidova’s participatory installation playfully incorporates both ancient myth and contemporary reality, highlighting the theme of interdependent responsibility in the wake of ecological disaster.
Dissolution
David Levine’s Dissolution is a jewel-box sculpture that conjures the past and future of the moving image. A 20-minute film played on a loop, it draws on the central conceit of iconic 1980s movies and TV shows such as Tron and Max Headroom: human characters who find themselves dematerialized and confined within the interior worlds of electronic devices.
Reflected Forms: Story and Character in the Films of Todd Haynes
On the occasion of Todd Haynes’s May December, MoMI presents an exhibit with materials from the archives of filmmaker Todd Haynes, now part of the Museum’s collection, offering a glimpse into his process of transforming historical and cultural referents into formally ambitious, richly emotional films.
The Shop Around the Corner
On December 22nd through 24th, see Lubitsch’s exquisite, Christmas-set workplace romantic comedy with James Stewart & Margaret Sullavan—a MoMI holiday tradition.
Christmas Eve on Sesame Street—45th Anniversary Screening!
This special holiday screening of the beloved 1978 special will be preceded by a brief compilation of Henson holiday clips.
The White Game
This remarkable cinema vérité documentary captures an important moment in the social turmoil and protests that swept Europe in the spring of 1968. The 12/17 screening will be introduced by Ambassador Andreas von Uexküll, Deputy Permanent Representative of Sweden to the United Nations.
Far from Heaven
A magnificently mounted and beautifully acted film that both evokes and subverts the craftsmanship and artifice of Hollywood studio filmmaking, Far from Heaven was writer-director Todd Haynes’s most instantly critically acclaimed film.
Giliap
A man arrives at an elegant yet shabby seaside hotel to take a job as a waiter, falls in love with a waitress, and is drawn into an elaborate crime scheme. Andersson’s follow-up to A Swedish Love Story baffled audiences at the time with its dark, mysterious tone.
Carol
Todd Haynes’s astonishing 1950s-set film, one of the great cinematic love stories of the 21st century, screens in time for Christmas on December 22 and 23.