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.
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.
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.
Clayography in Motion: Adam Elliot’s Memoir of a Snail
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.
Compositions in Code: The Art of Processing and p5.js
Processing and p5.js revolutionized creative coding, making generative art accessible to artists worldwide. This installation series pairs Processing pioneers with p5.js artists in a series of diptychs on the Herbert S. Schlosser Media Wall. Plus, you can mint your own fragments of art by LIA and Sarah Ridgley. Learn more!
Fleischer Studios Cartoons—Restored!
From the 1920s through the early 1940s, the Fleischer Studios' cartoon shorts were immensely successful, their popularity and cultural ubiquity rivaling those of Walt Disney. In 2022, a restoration effort began for the Fleischer Studio cartoons. This program of four restored shorts features some of the Fleischers' most unforgettable and culturally persistent characters.
is this thing on?
THING+YOU, from the livestreaming collective "is this thing on?", showcases how artists can reclaim agency in digital spaces while fostering genuine community engagement across platforms. Participation is encouraged through QR codes placed throughout the gallery, enabling engagement with live chats and real-time contributions to evolving artworks and archived performances. Learn more!
Eephus
Carson Lund 's elegiac, ribald, and entirely charming baseball movie lovingly celebrates a recent American past that already feels as though it's slipping away. Screens 4/12 and 4/13.
I’m Still Here
See this year's Academy Award–winner for Best International Feature, from director Walter Salles, set amidst the tightening grip of a military dictatorship in 1970s Brazil. The film is anchored by a remarkable performance by Golden Globe–winner Fernanda Torres.
I’m Still Here
This year's Academy Award–winner for Best International Feature stars the incomparable Fernanda Torres as real-life figure Eunice Paiva, who must carve out a new life for her children when her husband is one day taken away by government officials amidst the tightening grip of a military dictatorship in 1970s Brazil.