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.
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.
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.
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.
Disreputable cinema masters Troma Entertainment take on the bard in this depraved adaptation of The Tempest. Director Lloyd Kaufman in person: April 8!
An exciting program of six short films presented in collaboration with ReelAbilities, on April 9, with Grace Fisher, Steven Fraser and Nick Fergus in attendance.
One of the greatest screen adaptations of Sondheim’s stage work is this revelatory and wildly entertaining documentary by vérité trailblazer D. A. Pennebaker. Screening April 8, 17 & 23.
Sondheim's bawdy Broadway hit became a smash movie adaptation by Richard Lester and starring Zero Mostel.
On April 16, media artist Carrie Hawks will give an artist talk followed by a hands-on animation workshop combining digital and analog filmmaking.
This chronological journey from Jim Henson’s first show to The Muppet Show features material you won’t see anywhere else. Hosted by Craig Shemin, President of The Jim Henson Legacy—April 16 and 22.
Sidney Lumet's sumptuous, star-studded adaptation of Agatha Christie's classic detective novel takes full advantage of its interwar period setting, luxuriating in the evocation of Old World decadence in its waning years.
Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure is a perceptive, sardonic portrait of a husband and father’s response to a potentially devastating avalanche at a ski resort where he is vacationing with his family.
From writer-director Paul Schrader comes a gripping thriller about a crisis of faith that is at once personal, political, and planetary. Showing April 17 as part of Science on Screen: Extinction and Otherwise.
A selection of short films and excerpts from feature films that won awards at the inaugural Marvels of Media Awards
Tim Burton proved he was a fitting choice to finally direct the long-anticipated screen adaptation of Sondheim’s masterpiece, the musical that shocked Broadway audiences in 1977. Screening April 23 & 24.
Sondheim and writer James Lapine’s brilliant fractured fairy tale is given the grand-scale Disney treatment, yet miraculously without sacrificing its sophistication, cleverness, or melancholy.
On April 27, join MoMI and Movie Trivia NYC online for an evening of cinematic fun, featuring a guest round from Patrick Cotnoir of The George Lucas Talk Show.
Undoubtedly one of the greatest films ever made, Chantal Akerman’s singular avant-garde epic screens April 29 and May 8.
In this genre-bending, deeply personal documentary, Oscar-nominated writer-director Sarah Polley discovers that the truth depends on who is telling it, uncovering a web of secrets kept by her family.
On April 30, one of the most original and delightful comedies of the eighties, with Toby Talbot in conversation with Michael Barker—plus a book signing!
In one of Akerman’s greatest films, a celebrated Belgian filmmaker tours cities in West Germany, Belgium, and France with her work, and passes through anonymous, depopulated spaces like a ghost.
Adapting Rose Leiman Goldemberg’s off-Broadway play based on Sylvia Plath’s letters to her mother Aurelia, Akerman delivers a spare reflection on the inextricable ties binding mother and daughter.
Warren Beatty’s big-budget, color-drenched adaptation of Chester Gould’s classic mid-century comic strip is a visual delight from start to finish, featuring lovingly detailed noir photography by Vittorio Storaro.
Sondheim’s only foray into screenwriting is this delightful, complexly woven comic-tinged mystery, co-written with his friend Anthony Perkins.
On April 30, see Alfred Hitchcock's stark 1956 masterpiece starring Henry Fonda and Vera Miles alongside Cosmo Bjorkenheim's cinematic tour of Queens.
Built around a series of conversations in person and online between the filmmaker and her mother, a Belgian Holocaust survivor, No Home Movie is both diaristic and avant-garde, a meditation on family relations, memory, and death in the modern world.
This moving historical saga follows a prominent Greek family forced to endure the burning of the vibrant cosmopolitan city of Smyrna in 1922 by the Turks and the killing of its Greek and Armenian populations.