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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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
The Museum's core exhibition immerses visitors in the creative and technical process of producing, promoting, and presenting films, television shows, and digital entertainment.
This traveling exhibition explores Jim Henson’s groundbreaking work for film and television and his transformative impact on popular culture.
This dynamic experience explores Jim Henson’s groundbreaking work for film and television and his transformative impact on culture.
This exhibition explores the process of designing the fantastical characters for the Netflix series prequel to the 1982 film.
Commissioned by the Museum, seven artists have each created four original GIFs that will be presented as two-month installations on the walls and ceiling of the visitor elevator.
Six short works that touch on the theme of unseen forces that shape our world, created by artists from Southeast Asia.
An exhibit of lobby cards and posters from the 1930s through the 2010s for American films with Black women in featured roles.
In his companion piece installation to The Underground Railroad, Jenkins further engages ideas about visibility, history, and power in moving-image portraits of the show’s background actors.
“Deepfakes” are videos that intentionally distort or fabricate actual events. This temporary exhibition presents a variety of media that demonstrate the instability of on-screen truths.
MoMI's Teen Council is excited to present the annual Teen Film Festival on March 4, 2022, including short films created by teens from the boroughs of New York City.
On March 9, popular and prolific deepfake creators “Myster Giraffe,” “the Fakening,” and Chris Umé join us for a free online event.
Exploring the technological advances that have made backing up our world possible—from trees to turtles to tangerines—Our Ark probes the urge to preserve as well as what cannot be captured.
Beautifully photographed in thick jungle terrain, Chantal Akerman's adaptation synthesizes the long-take formalism of her earlier work with the spontaneity of her documentaries.
On March 12 and 25, join us for a mind-blowing collection of shorts, crazy commercials, and other rarities from the Henson vault.
In this striking documentary, Vitaly Mansky returns to footage he shot while making a movie about Russian presidential candidate Vladimir Putin, questioning his own participation, and looking for clues to explain what would happen in the ensuing two decades of Putin’s regime.
Two superb works of observational storytelling, including the 2021 Oscar Nominee for Best Documentary Short from Elizabeth and Gulistan Mirzaei
From March 16–18, the Museum functions as a laboratory for explorations of the creative process.
On March 16, join us for the Opening Night of MoMI's annual First Look festival, featuring an exciting double bill of Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović's Cannes-winning feature and the exquisite new short by the beloved Taiwanese auteur Tsai Ming-liang.
From March 16–18, the Museum functions as a laboratory for explorations of the creative process.
Russian cause celebré Kirill Serebrennikov’s third feature is a hallucinatory, surrealistic adaptation of Alexey Salnikov’s novel The Petrovs in and Around the Flu.
Set in abandoned missile silos and custom-made gilted bunkers, some of which have their own cryptocurrency, Bunker is a verité look at the lives of American men of all classes who self-isolate in preparation for disaster, as well as those businesses that capitalize on fear.
A mother and son revisit the medical emergency that reshaped their lives and the remarkable fragments that remain of that time in this intimate blend of VR and performance film.
From March 16–18, the Museum functions as a laboratory for explorations of the creative process.
Conversation and Q&A between MoMI's Sonia Epstein and artist Kathryn Hamilton about the film Our Ark and accompanying gallery installation
In his hand-crafted masterwork, celebrated artist Qiu has delivered a gloriously synthetic historical pageant in homage to classical Chinese opera without forgetting to make us laugh.
This boldly conceived debut renders the disconnected existence of Cassandre, a seemingly carefree flight attendant for a budget airline. Screening Friday, March 18 for First Look 2022.
This startlingly candid observational documentary takes place almost entirely inside a juvenile prison in Madagascar, screens alongside two shorts from filmmaker Marek Moučka
A century-old paddle steamer called the Rocket journeys from capital city Dhaka to coastal villages in a 360-degree portrait of contemporary Bangladesh.
This ravishing film follows the tireless Thein Shwe and his family as they eke out a life drilling for oil in the fields of Magway, Myanmar.
The latest documentary from the indefatigable Sergei Loznitsa is a masterwork of archival storytelling, grippingly and exhaustively detailing the Lithuanian fight for nationhood during the crucial years of 1989–1991, threaded together by interviews with the first Head of the Lithuanian Parliament, the now 89-year-old Vytautas Landsbergis
Indonesian auteur Edwin’s exhilarating whatsit blends grindhouse exploitation with meet-cute romance and magical realism in the form of a shaggy dog road movie.
Persistent Visions is the Museum’s ongoing series dedicated to experimental works. This first program is an exploration of indeterminacy, feelings, time, and the need for grounding in the physical world.
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
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.
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.
On March 20, director Iliana Sosa in person with her intimate, lovingly patient portrait of the director’s 89-year-old grandfather Julián.
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.
Dutch instigator Guido Hendrikx’s conceit is simple: he knocks on strangers’ doors and then films them without saying a word, fashioning a subtly powerful and frequently hilarious mosaic of community and tolerance.
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!
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.
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.
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.
On March 26, see a First Look encore screening of Qiu Jiongjiong's hand-crafted masterwork, an homage to classical Chinese opera.
Two personal documentary portraits from director Valentyn Vasyanovych.
Indonesian auteur Edwin’s exhilarating whatsit blends grindhouse exploitation with meet-cute romance and magical realism in the form of a shaggy dog road movie.
Four films from First Look 2022 that exemplify the diversity of the nonfiction short form.
On March 27, witness the improbable underdog story of the Greek national soccer team, led by legendary German coach “King” Otto Rehhagel. Special event featuring discussion and audience Q&A with players Giorgos Karagounis and Antonios Nikopolidis of the 2004 Greek National Championship Team, and coaches Otto Rehhagel and Ioannis Topaldis!
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.
A free preview screening of Goran Stolevski's upcoming period horror film from Focus Features.
Artist-filmmaker April Lin 林森 will give a workshop on creating an Access Rider for media artists with disabilities. Artists who are neurodivergent, and have chronic disabilities and/or physical disabilities are all welcome. Space is limited ...
The Marvels of Media Awards is the very first media awards ceremony, festival, and exhibition to celebrate media-makers on the autism spectrum. This selection of media and related objects reveals a diverse artistry.
March 31: The Marvels of Media Awards at Museum of the Moving Image is the very first media awards ceremony, festival, and exhibit to celebrate media-makers on the autism spectrum.
On April 1 and 3, see Spielberg’s masterful, Oscar-nominated update of the epochal 1957 stage musical on the big screen. Part of See It Big: Sondheim.
On April 1, a mid-career retrospective of Bay Area filmmaker Zachary Epcar for the ongoing Persistent Visions program.
On April 2 and 3, in celebration of its 100th anniversary, MoMI is pleased to present Fritz Lang’s silent, early crime masterpiece.
The original West Side Story won ten Oscars including Best Picture and Best Supporting Actress (Moreno), and has stood the test of time as one of the greatest film musicals.