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 features a special focus on stop-motion-animation director Adam Elliot’s Academy Award–nominated film Memoir of a Snail.
9 events,
9 events,
10 events,
The Moving Image: A User’s Manual
The Moving Image: A User’s Manual
An educator, publisher, and producer, MIT's Peter Kaufman joins us for a book signing and free conversation about his new publication.
13 events,
Scarlet Street
Scarlet Street
Fritz Lang’s jolt of pure fatalism featured Edward G. Robinson in a career-best lead performance as a browbeaten, retired Greenwich Village cashier and amateur painter who falls into a trap set by a shady local girl.
For Your Consideration
For Your Consideration
The funniest movie ever made about the experience of being snubbed for an Oscar stars Catherine O’Hara in one of her greatest screen roles as Marilyn Hack, who discovers that she has been tapped for a possible nomination. Screens 2/28 and 3/2.
MoMI Oscars Trivia
MoMI Oscars Trivia
Join Movie Trivia NYC at MoMI for an evening of Oscars trivia. Join with a team (maximum 6) or play solo for the chance to win MoMI membership, free tickets, and prizes from the gift shop.
Cutter’s Way
Cutter’s Way
Ivan Passer’s gripping neonoir gave John Heard the meatiest role of his career as Cutter, a broken-down Vietnam veteran determined to exact revenge for a young woman's death. Screens 2/28 and 3/1.
14 events,
Access Mornings at MoMI
Access Mornings at MoMI
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 participate in workshops that begin at 11:00 a.m. before public hours begin.
The Body Snatcher
The Body Snatcher
This spare and chilling entry in Val Lewton’s hallowed 1940s run of B horror movies stars a brilliant Boris Karloff as a struggling cab driver in 19th-century Edinburgh who helps procure bodies from freshly dug graves for a local doctor.
Scarlet Street
Scarlet Street
Fritz Lang’s jolt of pure fatalism featured Edward G. Robinson in a career-best lead performance as a browbeaten, retired Greenwich Village cashier and amateur painter who falls into a trap set by a shady local girl.
Cutter’s Way
Cutter’s Way
Ivan Passer’s gripping neonoir gave John Heard the meatiest role of his career as Cutter, a broken-down Vietnam veteran determined to exact revenge for a young woman's death. Screens 2/28 and 3/1.
Saint Jack
Saint Jack
Peter Bogdanovich closed out his most celebrated decade with an underappreciated gem, adapted from a novel by Paul Theroux, starring 1970s king Ben Gazzara in one of his most charming and complex star turns.
12 events,
The Body Snatcher
The Body Snatcher
This spare and chilling entry in Val Lewton’s hallowed 1940s run of B horror movies stars a brilliant Boris Karloff as a struggling cab driver in 19th-century Edinburgh who helps procure bodies from freshly dug graves for a local doctor.
Saint Jack
Saint Jack
Peter Bogdanovich closed out his most celebrated decade with an underappreciated gem, adapted from a novel by Paul Theroux, starring 1970s king Ben Gazzara in one of his most charming and complex star turns.
For Your Consideration
For Your Consideration
The funniest movie ever made about the experience of being snubbed for an Oscar stars Catherine O’Hara in one of her greatest screen roles as Marilyn Hack, who discovers that she has been tapped for a possible nomination. Screens 2/28 and 3/2.
8 events,
8 events,
8 events,
9 events,
Compositions in Code: The Art of Processing and p5.js
Processing and p5.js revolutionized creative coding, making generative art accessible to artists worldwide. This installation series pairs Processing pioneers with p5.js artists in a series of diptychs on the Herbert S. Schlosser Media Wall. Plus, you can mint your own fragments of art by LIA and Sarah Ridgley. Learn more!
11 events,
Astoria Ramadan Iftar
Astoria Ramadan Iftar
Join us for a special Astoria Ramadan Iftar night, hosted by MoMI community partner Malikah. This beautiful evening of celebration during the sacred month of Ramadan brings together community members, elected officials, and talented artists. From Quran recitations to poetry, there will be something for everyone to enjoy.
Quick Change
Quick Change
See Bill Murray’s first and to-date only directorial credit on 35mm! Quick Change is a rollicking, finely tuned New York City–set farce, starring Murray, Geena Davis, and Randy Quaid.
13 events,
Access Mornings at MoMI
Access Mornings at MoMI
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 participate in workshops that begin at 11:00 a.m. before public hours begin.
The Lady from Shanghai
The Lady from Shanghai
Fresh off her star-making turn in the smash hit Gilda, Rita Hayworth was cast in another quintessential noir of the forties, this one directed by none other than her then husband Orson Welles. Screening 3/8.
11 events,
Slide with Bill Plympton in person
Slide with Bill Plympton in person
Legendary American animator Bill Plympton returns to MoMI on 3/9 to present the first public New York City screening of his new feature, his most visually stunning work to date, followed by Q&A.
9 events,
9 events,
11 events,
Bonjour Tristesse
Bonjour Tristesse
Durga Chew-Bose’s modern adaptation of Françoise Sagan’s 1954 novel starring Lily McInerny, Claes Bang, and Chloë Sevigny opens the 14th annual First Look on 3/12, with director Chew-Bose and McInerny in person.
13 events,
Working on It: Session 2
Working on It: Session 2
Day two of work-in-progress presentations and discussions and multimedia performances.
Park (Taman-taman)
Park (Taman-taman)
In this intricately improvised whatsit, Indonesian immigrants Asri and Hasan convene every day at twilight hour, in the heart of Taiwan’s oldest city. Director So Yo-hen in person!
Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989
Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989
Working from thousands of hours of footage catalogued in the vaults of Sweden’s national television service, archival chronicler Göran Hugo Olsson unspools a rigorously cool and steely account of the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Director Olsson in person on 3/13.
Desert of Namibia
Desert of Namibia
Yoko Yamanaka’s second feature follows mercurial 21-year-old Kana, who vacillates among suitors, priorities, and moods.
14 events,
Working on It: Session 3
Working on It: Session 3
Day three of work-in-progress presentations and discussions and live performances.
The Fifth Shot of La Jetée
The Fifth Shot of La Jetée
Dominique Cabrera discovers that Chris Marker’s 1962 sci-fi film La Jetée, made the same year that Algeria gained independence from French colonial rule, might also be an inadvertent historical document of her own family. Screens 3/14.
First Sight: 2025 Award-Winning Shorts from the Jonathan B. Murray Center for Documentary Journalism
First Sight: 2025 Award-Winning Shorts from the Jonathan B. Murray Center for Documentary Journalism
For the eighth consecutive year, First Look presents Jury award–winning graduate and undergraduate student films from the Jonathan B. Murray Center.
Sanctuary Station + Unstable Rocks
Sanctuary Station + Unstable Rocks
Shot on high-contrast black-and-white 16mm film and Super 16, this incandescent work weaves a rough, hallucinatory patchwork of encounters with women, old and young, solitary and collective. Director Brigid McCaffrey will appear in person.
When the Phone Rang
When the Phone Rang
On a Friday morning in 1992, eleven-year-old Lana (Ilincic) receives a phone call about a death in the family, a life-changing event in sync with the fracturing of Yugoslavian history and identity. Director Iva Radivojevic in person!
19 events,
Access Mornings at MoMI
Access Mornings at MoMI
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 participate in workshops that begin at 11:00 a.m. before public hours begin.
Windless
Windless
A brooding young man (Bulgarian rapper Fyre) returns to his village in rural Bulgaria to clean out his late father’s flat. As he reconnects with old friends and relatives, he hears tales of his father, but he cannot square these stories of a fiercely protective, deeply loving man with the remote patriarch of his childhood.
The Periphery of the Base + Bliss Point
The Periphery of the Base + Bliss Point
Mixed media artist Zhou constructs mutating digital landscapes that confound classical notions of scale, composition, and visual realism. His latest sets us adrift in the desolate expanse of the Gobi Desert, where an amorphous infrastructure project of massive proportions is underway.
The Shipwrecked Triptych
The Shipwrecked Triptych
Displaying remarkable formal sophistication with a dazzling composite of film stocks, formats, and digital VFX, visual artist Deniz Eroglu’s provocative, surreal narrative triad screens at First Look on 3/15.
Tata
Tata
Moldovan journalist Lina receives a video message from her estranged father, a migrant worker in Italy, seeking help from his abusive employer. Equipping him with a hidden camera, Lina finds herself on a parallel journey of justice—uncovering a pattern of domestic violence that has plagued her family for generations.
Sloan Readings and Awards Ceremony
Sloan Readings and Awards Ceremony
The Sloan Student Prizes are awarded annually in partnership with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to emerging filmmakers for their outstanding science-themed screenplays. This event on 3/15 will include an awards ceremony with remarks by the winning filmmakers.
A Frown Gone Mad
A Frown Gone Mad
In a beauty salon in Beirut, one client after another sits in Bouba's chair seeking cosmetic treatment. Omar Mismar’s uniquely mesmerizing film consists entirely of close-ups fixed on clients’ faces. A work of real-life body horror that’s also a tender portrait of communal defiance.
100,000,000,000,000 (Cent Mille Milliards)
100,000,000,000,000 (Cent Mille Milliards)
Drifting through an ethereal Monaco during the eerie, emptied-out limbo of the Christmas holidays, a diffident young sex worker gradually forms a strange, tentative bond with a preadolescent whose parents, Chinese real estate developers, have left her in the charge of her Serbian babysitter.
Zodiac Killer Project + The Vanguard Tapes
Zodiac Killer Project + The Vanguard Tapes
When his plans for a true crime documentary hit a wall, Charlie Shackleton set about reconstituting what might have been, while deconstructing what we’ve come to expect from an oversaturated genre. Plus the latest short from Bill Morrison. With Shackleton and Morrison in person
Songs of Slow Burning Earth
Songs of Slow Burning Earth
Filmed over two years in Ukraine, Zhurba’s epic depiction of her society under siege by Russia moves ineluctably from one grandly scaled, finely detailed scene of calamity to another, each designated by its degree of proximity to the front.
15 events,
Illuminations (Avant-Garde Shorts)
Illuminations (Avant-Garde Shorts)
The many splendored avant-garde works here, all shot with artisanal precision on Super 8 or 16mm film, reveal the hidden abyss beneath the serenity and sensuality of our physical world in ominous signs and portents of personal or societal dissolution.
Elementary
Elementary
The latest immersive work from documentary master Claire Simon takes us into Makarenko, a public elementary school in the Parisian suburb Ivry-sur-Seine, over the course of a school year, staying attentive to the glorious unpredictability of human interaction and the revelations of learning.
A Want in Her
A Want in Her
When her troubled mother goes missing, Irish filmmaker Myrid Carten returns home to find her—at the risk of losing herself. Drawing upon previously captured footage, new interventions, and extraordinarily evocative visual experiments within their living spaces, Carten reinvents the “home movie” as an aching, active processing.
Measures for a Funeral
Measures for a Funeral
The latest from singular artist Sofia Bohdanowicz richly blends family history with archival research and gothic storytelling. Director Bohdanowicz and actors Melanie Scheiner and Rosa-Johan Uddoh in person.
Chronicles of the Absurd
Chronicles of the Absurd
Miguel Coyula and actor Lynn Cruz were subjected to various forms of control and intimidation while making their dystopian feature Corazón azul in Cuba in 2011. This defiant and entertaining work playfully uses recalls their Kafkaesque experiences. Screening 3/16.
Diciannove
Diciannove
Giovanni Tortorici’s debut feature is narratively deft and stylistically dashing, zigzagging along with Leonardo’s impulsive, self-absorbed, and potentially toxic behavior. Director in person for First Look closing night 3/16!
8 events,
8 events,
8 events,
9 events,
Fleischer Studios Cartoons—Restored!
From the 1920s through the early 1940s, the Fleischer Studios' cartoon shorts were immensely successful, their popularity and cultural ubiquity rivaling those of Walt Disney. In 2022, a restoration effort began for the Fleischer Studio cartoons. This program of four restored shorts features some of the Fleischers' most unforgettable and culturally persistent characters.
10 events,
The Fishbowl (La Pecera)
The Fishbowl (La Pecera)
Stopping traditional medical treatments for her rapidly spreading cancer, visual artist Noelia (Isel Rodriguez) returns to her native Puerto Rico, and rejoins their struggle against the lingering effects of U.S. imperialism and environmental devastation. With director Glorimar Marrero Sánchez in person on 3/21.
12 events,
Access Mornings at MoMI
Access Mornings at MoMI
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 participate in workshops that begin at 11:00 a.m. before public hours begin.
Joan Didion and A Star Is Born (with Alissa Wilkinson in person + book signing)
Joan Didion and A Star Is Born (with Alissa Wilkinson in person + book signing)
To coincide with Alissa Wilkinson’s new cultural biography, We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine, we present a 3/22 screening of A Star Is Born, co-written by Didion and John Gregory Dunne, and starring Barbra Streisand, followed by a discussion between Wilkinson and author Lauren Sandler, followed by a book signing.
Gangs of New York with Martin Scorsese and Jay Cocks in person
Gangs of New York with Martin Scorsese and Jay Cocks in person
A dream project in gestation for more than 25 years, Gangs of New York is the most operatic, spectacular, and brutal of all of Scorsese’s films. Scorsese and Jay Cocks, who also wrote The Age of Innocence and The Silence, will join us in person to talk about their collaboration.
13 events,
Jim Henson’s 1975: A 50th Anniversary Retrospective
Jim Henson’s 1975: A 50th Anniversary Retrospective
On 3/23, we commemorate the 50th anniversary of a very big year in Jim Henson’s career, presented by Craig Shemin, President, The Jim Henson Legacy; Karen Falk, Director of Archives, The Jim Henson Company; and featuring puppet designer/builders and performers Rollie Krewson and John Lovelady and Henson's longtime head of design Michael K. Frith.
A Star Is Born
A Star Is Born
Featuring out-of-this-world chemistry between its leads and capturing the cultural mainstream of the mid-1970s with unusual authenticity, A Star Is Born won an Academy Award for its aching central ballad “Evergreen,” written by Streisand and Paul Williams.
Celebrating Merle Oberon: Wuthering Heights + Book Signing with Mayukh Sen
Celebrating Merle Oberon: Wuthering Heights + Book Signing with Mayukh Sen
Oscar-nominated Golden Age movie star Merle Oberon kept her South Asian identity concealed, passing as white throughout her many decades in Hollywood. Author Mayukh Sen, who has written a new book about Oberon, will appear in person to present one of her greatest films 3/23, followed by a book signing.
Desert of Namibia
Desert of Namibia
Yoko Yamanaka’s second feature follows mercurial 21-year-old Kana, who vacillates among suitors, priorities, and moods.
9 events,
9 events,
9 events,
12 events,
Marvels of Media Exhibition: The Adventure of Nature and the Senses
Being autistic creates an often-heightened sensory experience. Using video art, experimental film, and virtual reality, the artists in this compilation are inspired by plants, rabbits, birds, jellyfish, clouds, water, and structures as they create animations and play with nonlinear forms of cinema.
Marvels of Media Game Lab Exhibition
These five video games are filled with boundless creativity, communicated through fantastical worlds and unique puzzles. The innovation behind these games provides a sneak peek into the talent and imagination of autistic game designers.
Marvels of Media Festival Opening Night 2025
Marvels of Media Festival Opening Night 2025
Join us to celebrate the outstanding talents of award-winning actor-director Sue Ann Pien with the New York premieres of two short films: Once More, Like Rain Man and Elegy for the Future. The screenings will be followed by a discussion about autistic representation behind and in front of the camera.
13 events,
Vibrant Voices: Four Shorts
Vibrant Voices: Four Shorts
Join us for four vibrantly lit and colorful shorts that include thrillers, horror films, and comedies. Each uniquely uses light in an innovative way to emphasize tone and enhance the story. Followed by a discussion with filmmakers.
Lone Wolves
Lone Wolves
Ryan Cunningham of Broad City directed this heartwarming romantic comedy that follows the experiences of being a single woman trying to build a family while grappling with grief.
17 events,
Access Mornings at MoMI
Access Mornings at MoMI
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 participate in workshops that begin at 11:00 a.m. before public hours begin.
Playful Tales: Seven Shorts
Playful Tales: Seven Shorts
Playful Tales presents seven animated shorts for families and people of all ages to enjoy. Crafted by autistic animators, each short exhibits a distinct style and imaginative world, with lessons of creativity, perseverance, and accepting differences that relate to our everyday lives. Followed by a discussion with Harry Schad, Jacob Lenard, and Rae Xiang.
Life Lessons: Four Shorts
Life Lessons: Four Shorts
The documentaries and narratives in this program spotlight some of the struggles and challenges the disabled and neurodivergent communities face, such as workplace discrimination, micro-aggressions, ableism, mental health, and late diagnosis.
Collage Animation Workshop
Collage Animation Workshop
The workshop welcomes autistic visitors and media-makers to join us for the Collage Animation Workshop. Instructed by artist David Karasow, this two-hour media workshop focuses on creating collage art with paper, which is then animated to create a stop-motion animation short.
Media-Maker Talk and Networking Mixer
Media-Maker Talk and Networking Mixer
Join us for a talk with autistic media-makers and representatives from organizations that work with autistic artists, including Jason Weissbrod from Spectrum Laboratory about tips on how to build professional connections, and how to create films, video games, and video art. Followed by a networking mixer with refreshments.
12 events,
Quick Change
Quick Change
See Bill Murray’s first and to-date only directorial credit on 35mm! Quick Change is a rollicking, finely tuned New York City–set farce, starring Murray, Geena Davis, and Randy Quaid.
The Lady from Shanghai
The Lady from Shanghai
Fresh off her star-making turn in the smash hit Gilda, Rita Hayworth was cast in another quintessential noir of the forties, this one directed by none other than her then husband Orson Welles. Screening 3/8.
9 events,
9 events,
9 events,
9 events,
10 events,
A League of Their Own
A League of Their Own
Penny Marshall's classic baseball comedy starring Geena Davis, Tom Hanks, Lori Petty, and Madonna, screens 4/4 and 4/6 to celebrate the kickoff of major league baseball season.
10 events,
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights
The dark landscape of the English moors comes to vivid life in the classic, rapturously shot black-and-white Hollywood adaptation of Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel starring Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier.
12 events,
ReelAbilities: Magnetosphere
ReelAbilities: Magnetosphere
Maggie learns to embrace her unique perception, discovering that her "different" way of experiencing the world isn't something to fear—it's a gift worth celebrating. Followed by a discussion with director Nicola Rose.
A League of Their Own
A League of Their Own
Penny Marshall's classic baseball comedy starring Geena Davis, Tom Hanks, Lori Petty, and Madonna, screens 4/4 and 4/6 to celebrate the kickoff of major league baseball season.