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A woman in long dark hair stands against a wall against which computer codes and abstract purple and blue images are projected

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. 

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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.

An older man leans against a desk while he looks quizzically at a green spangled dress in the extreme foreground, seemingly worn by a woman.

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. 

A black and white image of a group of Japanese children and two adults standing in front of a STOP sign at the side of the road looking at the camera forlornly

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.

An image that looks like slightly degraded video from the eighties or nineties in which a woman holds a camcorder to her eye and aims toward the screen.

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.

A woman with curly hair speaks into a mic next to large screen showing small boxes of images from films as part of a trivia game; in the front, the backs of participants heads can be seen looking at the screen.

Summer Blockbuster Movie Trivia

This Friday, bring your movie knowledge to MoMI! Movie Trivia NYC is back and leading an exciting trivia night dedicated to a Memorial Day weekend tradition: summer blockbuster season kick-off!

A silly-looking skeleton-faced martian with a huge brain reaches out its hand to shake the hand of a hesitant human man in a brown suit with a map of the world behind them
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Mars Attacks!

On 5/24, Tim Burton's gleeful riff on 1950s sci-fi schlock, about an invasion of ray-gun-wielding Martians, kicks off our wide-ranging summer series See It Big at the '90s Multiplex.

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The Right Stuff

Kaufman’s mammoth adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s bestseller about the selection and lift-off of NASA’s first astronauts, known as the Mercury Seven, is a singular Hollywood epic. Screens 5/18 and 5/25.

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Princess Mononoke

Princess Mononoke is one of Hayao Miyazaki's most beloved films, a complex, often violent tale that pitted warring clans and creatures against each other in 14th-century Japan. Screening 5/26 and 6/1.

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The Thin Red Line

Terrence Malick’s World War II epic marked not only a professional comeback after 20 years of silence but also a major turning point in the filmmaker’s art.