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
The 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
This 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.
Recording the Ride: The Rise of Street-Style Skate Videos
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
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.
Community Curation
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.
Clayography in Motion: Adam Elliot’s Memoir of a Snail
The interactive animation section of the Museum’s core exhibition will be reimagined with a special focus on stop-motion-animation director Adam Elliot’s new film Memoir of a Snail.
NO-THING
NO-THING is a hybrid 24-hour performance and exhibition on the theme of nothingness, produced by is this thing on?, an experimental livestreaming network created by and for artists.
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
This sequel to Donner’s 1978 comic-book smash deepened both the human drama and the humor for a tour de force that outmatched the original.
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Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
This sequel to Donner’s 1978 comic-book smash deepened both the human drama and the humor for a tour de force that outmatched the original.
10 events,
10 events,
13 events,
Nanook of the North
Nanook of the North
Flaherty’s groundbreaking documentary, which intimately hunkers down with an Inuit family, headed by Nanook, as they live and survive the harsh winters of Canada’s Hudson Bay, was so popular it became a cultural phenomenon.
Two Animated Shorts by Adam Elliot: Harvie Krumpet + Ernie Biscuit
Two Animated Shorts by Adam Elliot: Harvie Krumpet + Ernie Biscuit
Elliot’s Oscar-winning short film Harvie Krumpet presents the odd biography of a man who has Tourette Syndrome, chronic bad luck, menial jobs, nudist tendencies, and a book of “fakts” hung around his neck—but still optimistically lives own way.
Expanded Screens Program 1: Where Does Film Live?
Expanded Screens Program 1: Where Does Film Live?
This program presents a range of video essays that inquire into the place of film in today’s world and media landscape, including desktop screens, online forums, production lots, and the streets of Hollywood.
Memoir of a Snail (Free Special Screening)
Memoir of a Snail (Free Special Screening)
Academy Award–winning writer and director Elliot’s Memoir of a Snail is a heartfelt and hilarious chronicle of the life of an outsider finding her confidence and silver linings amongst the clutter of everyday life. Director Adam Elliot in person, followed by reception! Free with RSVP!
15 events,
Mary and Max + Shorts Trilogy
Mary and Max + Shorts Trilogy
A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals—Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a severely obese 44-year-old man living in New York—blossoms in this beautifully animated, acclaimed comic drama. With director Adam Elliot in person!
Evil Does Not Exist
Evil Does Not Exist
Evil Does Not Exist slowly but surely transforms into a fable on man’s uneasy, symbiotic relationship to nature, buoyed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s singularly patient yet lucid storytelling.
Expanded Screens Program 2: Remixing New York
Expanded Screens Program 2: Remixing New York
This program presents New York City as it’s featured in documentary and experimental remix films. The artists represented in this screening pick up and disturb iconic TV clips, touristic images, video game simulations, and canonical films set in the city.
Hard Truths
Hard Truths
The magnificent Marianne Jean-Baptiste, reunited with the towering British director Mike Leigh for the first time since her Oscar-nominated performance in Secrets and Lies, gives a scalding performance in Hard Truths that won’t soon be forgotten.
Expanded Screens Program 3: The New Avant-Garde
Expanded Screens Program 3: The New Avant-Garde
Rooted in experimental cinema, the essay film, and documentary traditions, these makers challenge and play with our understanding of audiovisual media and the environments in which we use and experience them.
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Runaway Train
Runaway Train
Voight and Roberts both received Oscar nominations for their gripping, physically instinctive performances in Russian filmmaker Konchalovsky’s bullet-paced American thriller based upon an original story by Akira Kurosawa.
All We Imagine as Light
All We Imagine as Light
One of the year’s marvelous cinematic discoveries, Payal Kapadia’s Grand Prize winner at the Cannes Film Festival is a profoundly moving, meditative, exquisitely textured look at the lives of three women seeking love and spiritual sustenance in working-class Mumbai.
Expanded Screens Program 4: Out of the Past
Expanded Screens Program 4: Out of the Past
Featuring films that operate in the spaces between documentary, found footage filmmaking, the essay film, and contemporary remix culture, this program invites viewers to engage with the past in thought-provoking and immersive ways. Followed by a Q&A featuring the series programmers in dialogue.
The Shining
The Shining
Kubrick’s adaptation of Stephen King’s novel is a psychological horror masterpiece in which writer Jack Torrance is driven mad while working as the caretaker of a cavernous Colorado hotel over the course of one isolated winter.
9 events,
10 events,
Nickel Boys
Nickel Boys
A visually astonishing film that takes an uncompromising look at America’s past with cleansing, clear eyes. From Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel. With director RaMell Ross in person on January 7!
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The Seed of the Sacred Fig
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
A tense and gripping thriller as well as a politically radical, antipatriarchal drama, Mohammad Rasoulof’s film was shot in secret, away from the eye of the censorious Iranian government. With Mohammad Rasoulof and co-star Mahsa Rostami in person!
11 events,
Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tours
Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tours
Join us for a special guided tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition! The tour costs $5.00 per visitor (on top of admission ticket).
Anora (in 35mm)
Anora (in 35mm)
Winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, this spellbinding, bullet-paced modern-day screwball comedy follows a young sex worker from Brighton Beach whose life takes an unexpected turn. With co-star Karren Karagulian in person on 1/9.
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The Gold Rush
The Gold Rush
Charlie Chaplin’s sublimely funny and exquisitely made comedy is one of the unparalleled triumphs of silent cinema, an avalanche of groundbreaking effects, astonishing stunts, and humor made poetic. Screens 1/10 and 1/11.
Somebody Somewhere
Somebody Somewhere
Set in Manhattan, Kansas, the Peabody Award-winning HBO Original comedy series follows Sam (Bridget Everett), whose return to her hometown forces her to contend with family, friends, and her relationship to herself. With creators, writers, and executive producers Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen in person.
Sugarcane
Sugarcane
In 2021, evidence of unmarked graves was discovered on the grounds of an Indian residential school run by the Catholic Church in Canada. After years of silence, the forced separation, assimilation, and abuse many children experienced at these segregated boarding schools was brought to light, sparking a national outcry against a system designed to destroy Indigenous communities. With filmmaker Julian Brave NoiseCat in person.
Industry with Ken Leung in person
Industry with Ken Leung in person
Centered on the London office of behemoth international bank Pierpoint & Co, HBO’s Industry follows a coterie of ambitious young bankers as they navigate the tempestuous world of high finance. With actor Ken Leung in person!
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Runaway Train
Runaway Train
Voight and Roberts both received Oscar nominations for their gripping, physically instinctive performances in Russian filmmaker Konchalovsky’s bullet-paced American thriller based upon an original story by Akira Kurosawa.
A Real Pain
A Real Pain
This two-hander showcase for a pair of our best contemporary American actors, Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg, underlines the difficulties of navigating a world of unyielding sadness with humor.
Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tours
Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tours
Join us for a special guided tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition! The tour costs $5.00 per visitor (on top of admission ticket).
The Gold Rush
The Gold Rush
Charlie Chaplin’s sublimely funny and exquisitely made comedy is one of the unparalleled triumphs of silent cinema, an avalanche of groundbreaking effects, astonishing stunts, and humor made poetic. Screens 1/10 and 1/11.
Incident + Buried News with Bill Morrison in person
Incident + Buried News with Bill Morrison in person
Through a composite montage of images from surveillance and security footage as well as police bodycams, Incident provides witness to the killing of a Chicago barber by police.
Troma’s Bring on the Damned!
Troma’s Bring on the Damned!
Writer-director Brandon Bassham conjures up the horror anthology from hell with five tales of madness and humor in the tradition of Creepshow and Tales from the Crypt. Followed by a Q&A with Bassham.
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On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
For the sixth installment of its James Bond franchise, Eon Productions selected new face George Lazenby, a model with no previous acting experience, to fill Sean Connery’s already iconic shoes.
No Other Land
No Other Land
The year’s most urgent and devastating documentary is this collaboration between a group of Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers and activists.
Dourgouti Town
Dourgouti Town
Dimitris Bavellas's documentary traces the gentrification and virtual obliteration of Dourgouti, a residential district just south of the Acropolis. Screening 1/12 as part of the Greek film series Always on Sunday.
The Shining
The Shining
Kubrick’s adaptation of Stephen King’s novel is a psychological horror masterpiece in which writer Jack Torrance is driven mad while working as the caretaker of a cavernous Colorado hotel over the course of one isolated winter.
Janet Planet
Janet Planet
Annie Baker's sublime directorial debut, set in summer 1991, is a singular cinematic experience, entering the specific world of a child as she slowly begins to come to terms with the reality around her. With Annie Baker in person on 1/12!
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9 events,
9 events,
10 events,
Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tours
Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tours
Join us for a special guided tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition! The tour costs $5.00 per visitor (on top of admission ticket).
12 events,
Chisholm ’72: Unbought and Unbossed
Chisholm ’72: Unbought and Unbossed
This documentary about New York's Shirley Chisholm, the first African American to seek a major party’s presidential nomination, screens 1/17 and 1/20.
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
For the sixth installment of its James Bond franchise, Eon Productions selected new face George Lazenby, a model with no previous acting experience, to fill Sean Connery’s already iconic shoes.
A Different Man
A Different Man
The winner of the Gotham Award for Best Picture and the Golden Globe for Best Actor (Sebastian Stan), the latest from New York filmmaker Aaron Schimberg is a laceratingly funny genre crossbreed. Screening 1/17 with Schimberg in person.
15 events,
Youth (Hard Times)
Youth (Hard Times)
The second installment in Wang Bing’s monumental series chronicling the lives of young migrant garment workers in the Zhili district of Huzhou City, continues to immerse the viewer in the daily grind of workshop life.
All We Imagine as Light
All We Imagine as Light
One of the year’s marvelous cinematic discoveries, Payal Kapadia’s Grand Prize winner at the Cannes Film Festival is a profoundly moving, meditative, exquisitely textured look at the lives of three women seeking love and spiritual sustenance in working-class Mumbai.
Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tours
Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tours
Join us for a special guided tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition! The tour costs $5.00 per visitor (on top of admission ticket).
Universal Language
Universal Language
Manitoban filmmaker Matthew Rankin has created a deadpan wonder with his charming and singular comedy set against the wintry landscape of Winnipeg. Screens 1/18.
Pictures of Ghosts
Pictures of Ghosts
Acclaimed Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho turns to the deeply personal and the cinephilic in this multidimensional journey through time, sound, architecture and filmmaking.
Last Summer
Last Summer
No one makes layered, provocative dramas quite like Catherine Breillat, whose latest film, one of her best, concerning an inappropriate sexual affair, screens 1/18.
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Youth (Homecoming)
Youth (Homecoming)
Wang Bing concludes his transformative observational triptych of documentaries about young migrant garment workers barely scraping by while working far from their rural homes in the Zhili district of Huzhou City.
All We Imagine as Light
All We Imagine as Light
One of the year’s marvelous cinematic discoveries, Payal Kapadia’s Grand Prize winner at the Cannes Film Festival is a profoundly moving, meditative, exquisitely textured look at the lives of three women seeking love and spiritual sustenance in working-class Mumbai.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Family Day 2025
Martin Luther King, Jr. Family Day 2025
Join us in celebrating the birthday of civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with a talk, tours, digital media-making activities, and more. Visitors are invited to join a thoughtful conversation with local teen advocates about conflict resolution; create animations and immersive, virtual reality drawings; join a Museum tour; or participate in a scavenger hunt discovering the connections between moving image history and Black people’s fight for freedom during the Civil Rights Movement.
The Girl with the Needle
The Girl with the Needle
In post-WWI Copenhagen, a young factory worker is left to fend for herself when her husband doesn’t return from the battlefield. Seeking help for an unwanted pregnancy, she meets the charismatic Dagmar, who takes her in to help run an underground adoption agency for unwanted children. A sudden revelation changes everything in this chilling true story.
The Ascent
The Ascent
Against the harsh, snow-choked, wind-swept backdrop of Nazi-occupied Belorussia, a pair of Soviet partisans find themselves separated from their troop and thrust into a fight for survival. Screens 1/19 and 1/24.
Mambar Pierrette
Mambar Pierrette
The feature narrative debut of Cameroonian filmmaker Mbakam is a rapturous, elegantly observed quotidian portrait of a seamstress working to support her young children and mother in the city of Douala.
10 events,
Chisholm ’72: Unbought and Unbossed
Chisholm ’72: Unbought and Unbossed
This documentary about New York's Shirley Chisholm, the first African American to seek a major party’s presidential nomination, screens 1/17 and 1/20.
9 events,
9 events,
10 events,
Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tours
Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tours
Join us for a special guided tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition! The tour costs $5.00 per visitor (on top of admission ticket).
11 events,
The Ascent
The Ascent
Against the harsh, snow-choked, wind-swept backdrop of Nazi-occupied Belorussia, a pair of Soviet partisans find themselves separated from their troop and thrust into a fight for survival. Screens 1/19 and 1/24.
Skate Video Essentials: Classic Skate Stories
Skate Video Essentials: Classic Skate Stories
This screening program, presented in conjunction with MoMI’s exhibition Recording the Ride: The Rise of Street-Style Skate Videos, features three early classics that helped define the skate video genre.
14 events,
Queens Tech and Career Expo
Queens Tech and Career Expo
Explore a world of opportunities with more than 50 career and technology vendors, thrilling gaming battles for cash prizes, and engaging fireside chats and tech panels led by industry leaders.
The Witches: 35th Anniversary Screening
The Witches: 35th Anniversary Screening
A singular collaboration between vanguard filmmaker Nicolas Roeg and visionary artist Jim Henson, The Witches adapts one of Roald Dahl’s most frightful books for children with phantasmagoric gusto. With Craig Shemin, President of the Jim Henson Legacy, in person!
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
Radu Jude's anarchic satire is a wild and unforgettable ride through the vulgar indignities of the 21st century.
The Gold Rush
The Gold Rush
Charlie Chaplin’s sublimely funny and exquisitely made comedy is one of the unparalleled triumphs of silent cinema, an avalanche of groundbreaking effects, astonishing stunts, and humor made poetic. Screens 1/10 and 1/11.
The Shining
The Shining
Kubrick’s adaptation of Stephen King’s novel is a psychological horror masterpiece in which writer Jack Torrance is driven mad while working as the caretaker of a cavernous Colorado hotel over the course of one isolated winter.
14 events,
The Witches: 35th Anniversary Screening
The Witches: 35th Anniversary Screening
A singular collaboration between vanguard filmmaker Nicolas Roeg and visionary artist Jim Henson, The Witches adapts one of Roald Dahl’s most frightful books for children with phantasmagoric gusto. With Craig Shemin, President of the Jim Henson Legacy, in person!
Marvels of Media: Filmmaking Workshop
Marvels of Media: Filmmaking Workshop
As part of Museum of the Moving Image’s Marvels of Media, this media workshop invites autistic visitors and media-makers to learn how to create a silent short film scene.
Green Border
Green Border
This wrenching drama from the great Polish director Agnieszka Holland is among the most astonishingly urgent films of the decade, a vivid, multifaceted perspective on the global humanitarian crisis that takes both a macro political view and an intimate, personal accounting.
The Shining
The Shining
Kubrick’s adaptation of Stephen King’s novel is a psychological horror masterpiece in which writer Jack Torrance is driven mad while working as the caretaker of a cavernous Colorado hotel over the course of one isolated winter.
About Dry Grasses
About Dry Grasses
ne of contemporary cinema’s greatest and most ambitious philosophical directors, Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan has fashioned one of his most compelling human dramas.
9 events,
Couples Therapy
Couples Therapy
Now in its fourth season, Couples Therapy continues to operate at the vanguard of both nonfiction television and our cultural awareness of the therapeutic process. We present two episodes, followed by a discussion with executive producer Josh Kriegman, executive producer Elyse Steinberg, Dr. Orna Guralnik, and psychiatrist and author Dr. Mark Epstein on January 31.