Search Museum of the Moving Image

Please be advised: the Museum will be open on Wednesday, June 19, 12:00–6:00 p.m. for the Juneteenth holiday.

CALENDAR

Behind the Screen - Tut's

GENERAL ADMISSION

You can buy admission tickets online. Pick a date and time to visit the Museum. Timed-entry slots are released generally one-month prior. All sales are final and payments cannot be refunded.

Filters

Changing any of the form inputs will cause the list of events to refresh with the filtered results.

Persistent Visions Program 2

Persistent Visions is the Museum’s ongoing series dedicated to experimental works. This second program explores gestural lyrics, offerings to the heavens, rituals for ancestors, and conceptually radical structures for restoring luminous contact with physical reality

Husek + Listen to the Beat of Our Images

A multi-million dollar urbanization project for the indigenous territory of Gran Chaco threatens to relocate Wichi families and disrupt their ancestral way of life.

Babi Yar. Context

Sergei Loznitsa’s film, constructed entirely of archival footage is a meticulous recounting of the events at Babi Yar, a ravine on the outskirts of Kiev where, in 1941, one of the largest mass executions in history took place. Screening March 20.

What We Leave Behind

On March 20, director Iliana Sosa in person with her intimate, lovingly patient portrait of the director’s 89-year-old grandfather Julián.

Recurring

Reflection

Ukrainian filmmaker Valentyn Vasyanovych's latest is a grim and bloody tour de force of long-take cinema, obliterating the imaginary line between states of peace and states of war. Screening March 20.

The Balcony Movie

Closing Night

Filmed before the pandemic yet prescient about our collective craving for connection in isolation, this quietly revelatory documentary was shot entirely from the filmmaker's balcony in Warsaw. Closing night selection for First Look 2022, with director in person—March 20!

Recurring

Atlantis

On March 25 and 27, see Valentyn Vasyanovych's ominous, visionary masterstroke of speculative fiction, set in 2025 where Eastern Ukraine lies ravaged and desolate.

F for Fake

Orson Welles's groundbreaking essay film presents a hall of mirrors portrait of professional art forger Elmyr de Hory, as well as literary fraudster Clifford Irving, at the former's home in Ibiza.

First Look Shorts: Emerging Artists Showcase

Four films by recent and current student filmmakers, including two documentaries by Slovakian filmmaker Marek Moučka and two narrative works by students from the SVA BFA Film department.

Black Level

On the cusp of his fiftieth birthday, Kostya, a wedding photographer who earns his living capturing others’ happiest moments, finds his life has fallen apart.

A New Old Play

On March 26, see a First Look encore screening of Qiu Jiongjiong's hand-crafted masterwork, an homage to classical Chinese opera.