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.
Mr. Yellow Sweatshirt
Shot in the Roosevelt Ave/Jackson Heights station, this installation video captures the tide of New Yorkers streaming through an entrance to the subway system in what the filmmakers refer to as a “collective ballet.”
Dissolution
David Levine’s Dissolution is a jewel-box sculpture that conjures the past and future of the moving image. A 20-minute film played on a loop, it draws on the central conceit of iconic 1980s movies and TV shows such as Tron and Max Headroom: human characters who find themselves dematerialized and confined within the interior worlds of electronic devices.
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.
Auriea Harvey: My Veins Are the Wires, My Body Is Your Keyboard
The first major survey of the pioneering net-artist and sculptor Auriea Harvey features more than 40 of Harvey’s works from her career spanning nearly four decades.
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Videofreak
Allen Riley's Videofreak reimagines the arcade game experience by emphasizing the art of video manipulation over traditional gameplay elements like scorekeeping and end goals.
14 events,
Tide Predictor
Tide Predictor is LoVid’s first code-driven generative artwork, a departure from a majority of their catalog, which centers experimentation with actual analog video. It will be displayed on the Museum's Schlosser Media Wall in the lobby.
The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence
Scorsese’s sumptuous cinematic rendering of Edith Wharton’s novel about the social mores of turn-of-the-century New York, starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Daniel Day-Lewis, screens March 1 and 3.
Members-only Oscars Trivia
Members-only Oscars Trivia
Join Movie Trivia NYC at MoMI for an evening of Oscars trivia, featuring a guest round from Michael Koresky.
Stop Making Sense: 40th Anniversary Re-Release
Stop Making Sense: 40th Anniversary Re-Release
Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense is considered by many critics the greatest concert film of all time.
16 events,
Access Mornings at MoMI
Access Mornings at MoMI
Offered the first Saturday of each month (June 2023–May 2024), free Access Mornings at MoMI are dedicated to families with children on the autism spectrum and give families an exclusive opportunity to explore exhibitions and ...
World on a Wire
World on a Wire
Fassbinder's vision of the future in 1970s aesthetics follows a cybernetics engineer Fred Stiller who is employed by Simulacron, a program that creates simulations of people who don’t know they are not flesh-and-blood in order to predict social, economic, and political events.
The House of Mirth
The House of Mirth
Terence Davies’s magnificent adaptation of Edith Wharton’s 1905 novel is a sumptuous triumph all around, yet its beating, battered heart belongs to Gillian Anderson, who miraculously evokes tragic heroine Lily Bart. Encore screening 3/22 on 35mm.
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Welcome to Ramadan
Welcome to Ramadan
Join us for a community event from 1:00–5:00 p.m. on March 3, organized by Shireen Soliman and MoMI’s Neighborhood Council. Immerse yourself in the joyful spirit of Ramadan as we celebrate with a day of fun programming for all ages.
The Breadwinner
The Breadwinner
This Oscar-nominated film is based on Deborah Ellis’s novel about a young girl, Parvana, growing up under Taliban's Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan as the War on Terror begins. Followed by a panel discussion about representation of Muslims and Ramadan in film and media.
The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence
Scorsese’s sumptuous cinematic rendering of Edith Wharton’s novel about the social mores of turn-of-the-century New York, starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Daniel Day-Lewis, screens March 1 and 3.
Stop Making Sense: 40th Anniversary Re-Release
Stop Making Sense: 40th Anniversary Re-Release
Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense is considered by many critics the greatest concert film of all time.
The House of Mirth
The House of Mirth
Terence Davies’s magnificent adaptation of Edith Wharton’s 1905 novel is a sumptuous triumph all around, yet its beating, battered heart belongs to Gillian Anderson, who miraculously evokes tragic heroine Lily Bart. Encore screening 3/22 on 35mm.
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Support the Girls
Support the Girls
Snubbed: Regina Hall Dir. Andrew Bujalski. 2018, U.S. 93 mins. DCP. With Regina Hall, Haley Lu Richardson, Dylan Gelula, Zoe Graham. Regina Hall is effortlessly magnetic as Lisa, the general manager of the Hooters-like sports ...
The Heartbreak Kid
The Heartbreak Kid
Snubbed: Charles Grodin Dir. Elaine May. 1972, U.S. 106 mins. 35mm print courtesy of the BFI National Archive. With Charles Grodin, Cybill Shepard, Jeannie Berlin, Eddie Albert, Audra Lindley. May’s gutsy anti-romantic comedy stars a ...
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Muppets Most Wanted – 10th Anniversary Screening
Muppets Most Wanted – 10th Anniversary Screening
Criminal mastermind Constantine, a Kermit the Frog look-alike, replaces Kermit as the Muppets go on a European tour. Introduced by Craig Shemin on 3/9 and 3/10.
Something Wild
Something Wild
Jonathan Demme was at the height of his madcap powers with this quintessential rollicking eighties comic adventure starring a breakout Melanie Griffith as the maniacally free-spirited Lulu.
Happy-Go-Lucky
Happy-Go-Lucky
Mike Leigh's brilliantly unexpected comedy about happiness and the perception of our shared reality stars a singular Sally Hawkins as Poppy, a bouncy, relentlessly optimistic primary school teacher from North London. See it in 35mm during our Snubbed series 3/9 and 3/10.
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Muppets Most Wanted – 10th Anniversary Screening
Muppets Most Wanted – 10th Anniversary Screening
Criminal mastermind Constantine, a Kermit the Frog look-alike, replaces Kermit as the Muppets go on a European tour. Introduced by Craig Shemin on 3/9 and 3/10.
Happy-Go-Lucky
Happy-Go-Lucky
Mike Leigh's brilliantly unexpected comedy about happiness and the perception of our shared reality stars a singular Sally Hawkins as Poppy, a bouncy, relentlessly optimistic primary school teacher from North London. See it in 35mm during our Snubbed series 3/9 and 3/10.
The Heartbreak Kid
The Heartbreak Kid
Snubbed: Charles Grodin Dir. Elaine May. 1972, U.S. 106 mins. 35mm print courtesy of the BFI National Archive. With Charles Grodin, Cybill Shepard, Jeannie Berlin, Eddie Albert, Audra Lindley. May’s gutsy anti-romantic comedy stars a ...
Stop Making Sense: 40th Anniversary Re-Release
Stop Making Sense: 40th Anniversary Re-Release
Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense is considered by many critics the greatest concert film of all time.
9 events,
9 events,
12 events,
Fiona Tan: Footsteps
In this video installation drawn exclusively from films made between 1896 and the late 1920s, Tan pairs mesmerizing moments of people working over a century ago—sewing fishing nets, harvesting wheat, collecting chicken eggs, sorting oysters—with missives from her Australia-based father, read aloud by Scottish actor Ian Henderson.
Working on It (Day One)
Working on It (Day One)
The Working on It program offers a lab-like environment for work-in-progress screenings, workshops, and discussions about the artistic process. This year’s edition will take place during the afternoons of March 13–15, and is open to ...
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Working on It (Day Two)
Working on It (Day Two)
The Working on It program offers a lab-like environment for work-in-progress screenings, workshops, and discussions about the artistic process.
First Sight: 2024 Award-Winning Shorts from the Jonathan B. Murray Center for Documentary Journalism
First Sight: 2024 Award-Winning Shorts from the Jonathan B. Murray Center for Documentary Journalism
For the seventh consecutive year, First Look presents Jury award–winning graduate and undergraduate student films from the Jonathan B. Murray Center for Documentary Journalism at the Missouri School of Journalism.
Hazel (dual) + Gwetto
Hazel (dual) + Gwetto
In the economic capital of Madagascar, four undocumented workers from across the country at a neighborhood car wash endure their lot until they can earn enough to secure their identity papers and seek a better future. Paired with Everson’s mesmerizing black-and-white diptych.
The Echo (El Eco)
The Echo (El Eco)
Young women in the remote Mexican town of El Echo exude vivacious optimism while shouldering disproportionately gendered responsibilities of family, farm life, and town. See it 3/14 with director Tatiana Huezo in person for First Look 2024.
Magic Mountain
Magic Mountain
In the spectacular mountains of southwest Georgia sits the Abastumani sanatorium, a treatment hospital for patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis, which becomes a site of fantasies and nightmares, a home of the living and the dead, in this reflection of a place and moment.
15 events,
Working on It (Day Three)
Working on It (Day Three)
The Working on It program offers a lab-like environment for work-in-progress screenings, workshops, and discussions about the artistic process. This year’s edition will take place during the afternoons of March 13–15, and is open to ...
Fiona Tan: Footsteps—Artist Reception
Fiona Tan: Footsteps—Artist Reception
Join us for a reception on March 15 with artist Fiona Tan to celebrate the opening of Footsteps, now on view in the Amphitheater Gallery. The reception will include a conversation between Tan and curator Sonia Epstein.
Solaris Mon Amour
Solaris Mon Amour
The same year that Alain Resnais’s masterpiece Hiroshima mon amour was released, science fiction writer and theorist Stanisław Lem began writing his influential novel Solaris, an artistic confluence that inspires this wholly original and emotionally resonant found footage film.
Self-Portrait: 47 KM 2020
Self-Portrait: 47 KM 2020
Over the past thirteen years, Zhang has documented her father’s village in Hubei, China, as a repository of ancestral memory; for the tenth of these films, Zhang installed herself permanently in the village upon the outbreak of COVID-19. The result is an immense accomplishment, vividly depicting a year in the life of a stoic rural community, far removed from an urban-centered pandemic.
Tendaberry
Tendaberry
This rapturous, dazzlingly unconventional debut feature dives deep into the life, mind, and spirit of a twentysomething Dominican American woman finding her footing in South Brooklyn. Screens 3/15 as part of First Look 2024.
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Sloan Screenplay Readings
Sloan Screenplay Readings
Select scenes from the two screenplays awarded the 2023 Sloan Student Prizes will be read by professional actors as part of this special program, produced and directed by Mêlisa Annis, and followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.
Flying Lessons
Flying Lessons
The magnetic pull between artist and filmmaker yields something beguiling and precious, celebrating the fiery Philly even as she and the world she fought to protect are being actively extinguished.
What Did You Dream Last Night, Parajanov?
What Did You Dream Last Night, Parajanov?
This poignant, warts-and-all portrait of a family separated by space but still profoundly connected in each other’s hearts, minds, and dreams is composed almost entirely of webcam footage between the Berlin-based, Iranian émigré filmmaker, his parents, and his friend.
Illuminations Program: Elsewhere/Here
Illuminations Program: Elsewhere/Here
Playful, elusive, and tactile, these eclectic works are unified by their filmmakers’ attempts to orient themselves in a world of constant, turbulent flux.
Achilles
Achilles
In Farhad Delaram’s seductive, shape-shifting debut feature, former filmmaker Farid works nights at a Tehran hospital—and sleeps there most days too. Estranged from his partner and hopeless about the future, he starts to awaken after meeting a patient in the psychiatric ward whose supposed fits of madness he innately understands.
1489
1489
Documenting her family’s attempts at locating her brother after he goes missing in a war between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Shoghakat Vardanyan films things we don’t often see: the struggles, emotions, and Kafkaesque runarounds when missing soldiers and their families are reduced to a statistic. Screens 3/16 as part of First Look 2024.
Behind Closed Doors
Behind Closed Doors
In 1968, Brazil’s military dictatorship enacted Institutional Act No. 5, which suspended the constitution, silenced citizens, and opted overtly into totalitarianism. This astonishing and ingenious film features archival audio document of the meeting that decided this act, combined with blithe moving image propaganda perpetuated by the government.
The Featherweight
The Featherweight
Imagine a lost feature by the Maysles Brothers or Ricky Leacock, filmed right when they might have consorted with a colorful and tragic character like Pep, and you’ve got The Featherweight. See it 3/16 with director Robert Kolodny in person for First Look 2024.
Knit’s Island
Knit’s Island
The filmmakers drop into the fictional landscape of the videogame DayZ as journalistic avatars and must battle a zombie apocalypse while endeavoring to stay alive long enough to film their interactions with the surprising community of people who spend their time in this VR world.
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Mimang
Mimang
In Kim Taeyang’s richly cryptic debut feature, a young man and woman, unnamed former acquaintances, meet by chance in the historic Jongno district at the heart of Seoul, then walk and talk, visiting and revisiting Jongno’s landmarks and byways over the years, much of the city and them changing beyond recognition.
The Clinic
The Clinic
In Yangon, Myanmar, a couple, Aung Min and San San Oo, operate a neighborhood clinic, providing low-cost treatments and therapies for a range of physical and psychological maladies. They also make art—paintings and films—as revealed in this shapeshifting film that starts as direct cinema then blossoms into a self-reflexive examination of the Burmese soul.
Arthur&Diana
Arthur&Diana
In this form-blending, refreshing work of autofiction, siblings Arthur and Diana are on a meandering road trip through France, Germany, and Italy that brings out deep-seated family dynamics that will feel familiar to older sisters and younger brothers.
Limitation
Limitation
Georgian filmmakers Elene Asatiani and Soso Dumbadze construct an archival horror film about 1991’s bloody military coup d'état against the government of Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Georgia’s first democratically elected president, forgoing contextual titles, narration, or interviews.
An Evening Song (for three voices)
An Evening Song (for three voices)
Graham Swon’s sophomore feature, displaying a remarkable devotion to craft, combining elements of Gothic horror, pulp mystery, and period romance, screens 3/17 as part of First Look 2024.
Gasoline Rainbow
Gasoline Rainbow
In the First Look 2024 closing night film, five recent high-school graduates escape small-town Oregon for one last adventure together, trekking 500 miles westward for their first visit to the Pacific coast. The latest film from Bill and Turner Ross is a joyous exploration (and detonation) of the borderlands of reality, mythology, narrative, improvisation, the discernable, and the ineffable.
10 events,
10 events,
10 events,
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The House of Mirth
The House of Mirth
Terence Davies’s magnificent adaptation of Edith Wharton’s 1905 novel is a sumptuous triumph all around, yet its beating, battered heart belongs to Gillian Anderson, who miraculously evokes tragic heroine Lily Bart. Encore screening 3/22 on 35mm.
Tendaberry
Tendaberry
This rapturous, dazzlingly unconventional debut feature dives deep into the life, mind, and spirit of a twentysomething Dominican American woman finding her footing in South Brooklyn. Screens 3/15 as part of First Look 2024.
13 events,
The Red Shoes
The Red Shoes
Powell and Pressburger’s influential backstage drama masterpiece about a rising star ballerina consumed by perfectionism features an unforgettable extended fantasy ballet, and Oscar-winning art direction and musical score. Screens 3/23, 3/24, and 3/29.
Support the Girls
Support the Girls
Snubbed: Regina Hall Dir. Andrew Bujalski. 2018, U.S. 93 mins. DCP. With Regina Hall, Haley Lu Richardson, Dylan Gelula, Zoe Graham. Regina Hall is effortlessly magnetic as Lisa, the general manager of the Hooters-like sports ...
The Featherweight
The Featherweight
Imagine a lost feature by the Maysles Brothers or Ricky Leacock, filmed right when they might have consorted with a colorful and tragic character like Pep, and you’ve got The Featherweight. See it 3/16 with director Robert Kolodny in person for First Look 2024.
12 events,
The Red Shoes
The Red Shoes
Powell and Pressburger’s influential backstage drama masterpiece about a rising star ballerina consumed by perfectionism features an unforgettable extended fantasy ballet, and Oscar-winning art direction and musical score. Screens 3/23, 3/24, and 3/29.
Something Wild
Something Wild
Jonathan Demme was at the height of his madcap powers with this quintessential rollicking eighties comic adventure starring a breakout Melanie Griffith as the maniacally free-spirited Lulu.
10 events,
10 events,
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Housekeeping for Beginners
Housekeeping for Beginners
From acclaimed filmmaker Goran Stolevski (Of an Age) comes a story exploring the universal truths of family: the ones we’re born into and the ones we find for ourselves.
11 events,
Marvels of Media Festival Opening Night
Marvels of Media Festival Opening Night
Our 3/28 opening night includes a reception; virtual reality showcase; and a selection of short films that explore the multitude of ways autistic people navigate dating and relationships.
15 events,
The Red Shoes
The Red Shoes
Powell and Pressburger’s influential backstage drama masterpiece about a rising star ballerina consumed by perfectionism features an unforgettable extended fantasy ballet, and Oscar-winning art direction and musical score. Screens 3/23, 3/24, and 3/29.
Puppetry Workshop with WonderSpark Puppets
Puppetry Workshop with WonderSpark Puppets
This workshop invites autistic visitors and media-makers are invited to learn how to perform puppetry on screen. Participants will gain knowledge about theater and perform original stories and become more confident puppeteers.
Flying Lessons + Oreo
Flying Lessons + Oreo
This dramatic feature follows two estranged sisters forced together by their mother’s sudden death.
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Last Temptation of Christ
One of Scorsese’s supreme achievements brilliantly articulates the passion of its director’s ongoing cinematic project for depicting the complexities of faith and violence. Screens 3/29 and 3/30.
The Zone of Interest
The Zone of Interest
Glazer has made a film about the Holocaust unlike any other, using obliqueness and the abstraction of terror to speak to the ways in which we all shield our eyes from evil. Screens 3/29–4/6.
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Magnificently Awesome Animations: Four Shorts
Magnificently Awesome Animations: Four Shorts
These four well-crafted animated shorts are perfect for kids of all ages, taking viewers into fantastical, vibrant worlds.
Bending Conventions: Six Shorts
Bending Conventions: Six Shorts
These inventive films offer innovative experimental film techniques, and unique storylines.
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Last Temptation of Christ
One of Scorsese’s supreme achievements brilliantly articulates the passion of its director’s ongoing cinematic project for depicting the complexities of faith and violence. Screens 3/29 and 3/30.
Collage Animation Workshop
Collage Animation Workshop
As part of Museum of the Moving Image’s Marvels of Media Festival and co-presented by Strokes of Genius, autistic visitors and media-makers are welcome to join us for the Collage Animation Workshop.
The Wedding Banquet
The Wedding Banquet
On 3/30 and 3/31, see the breakthrough film in America for Oscar-winning director Ang Lee, the moving, New York–set story of a gay Taiwanese immigrant who marries a woman from China, both to help her procure a green card and to convince his parents that he is straight.
Spirit Riser
Spirit Riser
Spirit Riser is a genre-bending fantasy with elements of horror, comedy, action, surrealism, and martial arts from rising New York City filmmaker Dylan Mars Greenberg, who will appear in person!
15 events,
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
A Tokyo office worker (Rinko Kikuchi) finds a battered VHS tape of a fictional film and becomes convinced the movie’s lost satchel of money is real is David Zellner's breakthrough comic mystery. Screening with filmmakers Nathan Zellner and David Zellner in person 3/31.
The Wedding Banquet
The Wedding Banquet
On 3/30 and 3/31, see the breakthrough film in America for Oscar-winning director Ang Lee, the moving, New York–set story of a gay Taiwanese immigrant who marries a woman from China, both to help her procure a green card and to convince his parents that he is straight.
Sometimes a Great Notion
Sometimes a Great Notion
Paul Newman directed this sweeping saga set in the Pacific Northwest based on the celebrated novel by Ken Kesey about a hard-bitten Oregon lumber family that bucks their close-knit community to deliver a shipment of logs during a strike. Screening 3/31.
The Zone of Interest
The Zone of Interest
Glazer has made a film about the Holocaust unlike any other, using obliqueness and the abstraction of terror to speak to the ways in which we all shield our eyes from evil. Screens 3/29–4/6.
Sasquatch Sunset
Sasquatch Sunset
In the forests of North America, a family of Sasquatches—possibly the last of their enigmatic kind—embark on an absurdist, poignant journey over the course of one year. Screening 3/31 with directors Nathan and David Zellner in person!