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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

Museum of the Moving Image

The Museum's core exhibition immerses visitors in the creative and technical process of producing, promoting, and presenting films, television shows, and digital entertainment.

Against a green, forest background, a man with a beard, bandana, and microphone holds a green felt frog puppet in his arm and they man and muppet look at each other fondly.

The Jim Henson Exhibition

Museum of the Moving Image

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

A man crouches in front of two women he's directing in a scene, against a backdrop of mirrors in a clothes store changing room

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. 

image in pink and purple created with code, appearing as a landscape with pink sky and purple mountain range

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!

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!

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE—Story and Spectacle

The exhibition will spotlight star and producer Tom Cruise’s exceptional commitment to practical stunt work, and explore how the series combines technical ingenuity, personal discipline, and artistic commitment, all in service of storytelling, character development, and performance. 

A vibrant cityscape in many colors, with the words HAPPY SUN THEATER above the center building.

Portals of Solitude: Virtual Realities from Taiwan

This installation features four virtual reality (VR) experiences created by Taiwanese filmmakers and artists that immerse the viewer into the worlds of isolated protagonists. Their stories are marked by mental and physical separation that demonstrate fragility and resilience.

Three puppets in a row, one a Gonzo, one a frog, and one a dog. They are Muppet Babies against a background of radiating bluish purple rays.

Muppet Babies Take MoMI presented by Bank of America

“Muppet Babies Take MoMI presented by Bank of America” offers fun activities for families on June 21 and 22! Newly restored puppets, including three Muppet Babies, will be on view during a weekend of family-friendly Open Worlds activities.

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The Outsiders

Francis Ford Coppola's adaptation of S. E. Hinton’s epochal young adult novel, set in 1960s Tulsa, Oklahoma, is a 1980s teen classic, breathtakingly acted by an astute cast of up-and-comers (including Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, and a young Tom Cruise) and directed with an unmistakable humanity. Screens 6/21 and 6/22 on 35mm.

A red-headed woman embraces a dark haired man with tenderness as they crouch in a forest.

Tea and Sympathy + Book Event with Michael Koresky

Vincente Minnelli’s 1956 melodrama about a mild-mannered boarding school student mercilessly mistreated for possible homosexuality created a storm of controversy. Followed by a discussion with MoMI’s Senior Curator of Film Michael Koresky, and a signing of his new book Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness.

Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight with Embeth Davidtz in person

Embeth Davidtz makes an astonishing debut as director and screenwriter in her vividly textured and complex adaptation of Alexandra Fuller’s memoir about growing up in Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) during the race and class conflicts during the war for independence that erupted in 1980. Followed by a Q&A with Davidtz.