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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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
The Museum's core exhibition immerses visitors in the creative and technical process of producing, promoting, and presenting films, television shows, and digital entertainment.
This dynamic experience explores Jim Henson’s groundbreaking work for film and television and his transformative impact on culture.
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.
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.
This exhibition features videos and artifacts from skate culture’s formative years, with a focus on releases by H-Street, Plan B, World Industries, Girl, and others that defined the modern skate video genre.
Waxwing subverts the traditional light gun, a device that allows players to aim and shoot at targets on a video game screen, by reimagining it as a literal source of light, shifting the focus from violence to an exploration of aspirations and the human condition.
For MoMI’s Community Curation initiative, a committee of ten curators and collectors nominated a shortlist of boundary-pushing artists for display on the Museum’s Herbert S. Schlosser Media Wall. These artists’ works reflect how personal and cultural histories shape artistic practice.
The interactive animation section of the Museum’s core exhibition features a special focus on stop-motion-animation director Adam Elliot’s Academy Award–nominated film Memoir of a Snail.
Free Access Mornings at MoMI are dedicated to families with children on the autism spectrum and give families an exclusive opportunity to explore exhibitions and participate in workshops that begin at 11:00 a.m. before public hours begin.
An anti-establishment thriller that perfectly captures the anarchy of 1970s New York, the film is remembered primarily for Pacino’s increasingly unhinged work, but the actor is given crucial support from the always poignant John Cazale.
The earliest extant feature from the groundbreaking Black American director Oscar Micheaux, who was born in Illinois to former slaves, this is among the most historically important silent films ever made. Screening 2/1 and 2/2.
Join us for a free engaging talk presented by MoMI’s Neighborhood Council with Talisa Almonte, an Afro-Dominican artist, illustrator, and muralist based in Queens, whose Yoda One greeting card will be sold in our Moving Image Shop.
Exquisitely designed and brilliantly acted by odd couple John Turturro and John Goodman, Barton Fink remains one of the Coens’ most deliriously inscrutable dark comedies. Screens 2/1 and 2/2.
Working at the height of his powers, Burton was given free rein to create one of the most astonishingly strange and perverse summer blockbusters of all time, transforming the D.C. Comics superhero saga into a grim fairy tale.