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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

Behind the Screen

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The 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

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This dynamic experience explores Jim Henson’s groundbreaking work for film and television and his transformative impact on culture. 

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. 

Videofreak

Allen Riley's Videofreak reimagines the arcade game experience by emphasizing the art of video manipulation over traditional gameplay elements like scorekeeping and end goals.

Tide Predictor

Tide Predictor is LoVid’s first code-driven generative artwork, a departure from a majority of their catalog, which centers experimentation with actual analog video. It will be displayed on the Museum's Schlosser Media Wall in the lobby.

Fiona Tan: Footsteps

In this video installation drawn exclusively from films made between 1896 and the late 1920s, Tan pairs mesmerizing moments of people working over a century ago—sewing fishing nets, harvesting wheat, collecting chicken eggs, sorting oysters—with missives from her Australia-based father, read aloud by Scottish actor Ian Henderson.

the V01D

Joshua Davis's the V01D is a programmatic artwork capable of generating tens of thousands of visual outputs.

Recurring

House on Haunted Hill

This fan favorite chiller from gimmick master William Castle, screening 5/17 and 5/19, stars horror icon Vincent Price in one of his most gleefully sinister performances. 

Live Code: Real-Time Visual Music Since the 1980s

Don’t miss this panel, part of Open Worlds opening weekend, featuring artists and subject experts who will share insights into the groundbreaking artwork, software, and events that have shaped live code practices. 

Notes of an Itinerant Performer

Largely due to its atypical period setting in the late Meiji era and its theme of female self-sacrifice, Shimizu’s film has drawn comparison to similar works by Kenji Mizoguchi.

Dodo

A dodo, a bird extinct for the last 300 years, shows up at the villa of a financially troubled family on the eve of the daughter's advantageous wedding to a wealthy heir. 

Children of the Beehive

The most celebrated of Shimizu’s postwar films, screening 5/19, is a momentous work depicting the shattered state of reconstruction-era Japan.

Three Promises

In the early 2000s, Suha begins filming her daily life in Bethlehem as the Israeli army lays siege to the West Bank in retaliation over the second intifada.