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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
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.
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).
Little Women
Little Women
The best adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel, Armstrong’s magnificent and deeply heartfelt film, shot partly on location in exquisitely wintry Massachusetts, stars an incandescent, Oscar-nominated Winona Ryder as Jo March. Screens 12/8 and 12/13.
La Chimera
La Chimera
Rohrwacher followed up the exhilarating Happy as Lazzaro with this spellbinding character-driven saga starring a sexily rumpled Josh O’Connor as Arthur, a thief fresh out of prison who rejoins with his roving band of tombaroli, or graverobbers who loot burial sites for their ancient jewels and precious objects.
Little Women
Little Women
The best adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel, Armstrong’s magnificent and deeply heartfelt film, shot partly on location in exquisitely wintry Massachusetts, stars an incandescent, Oscar-nominated Winona Ryder as Jo March. Screens 12/8 and 12/13.
John Denver & The Muppets: A Christmas Together (45th Anniversary) + Henson Holiday Clips
John Denver & The Muppets: A Christmas Together (45th Anniversary) + Henson Holiday Clips
Join us to celebrate the 45th anniversary of John Denver's 1979 Muppet hat trick (Muppet Show appearance, TV special, and album) on 12/14 and 12/15 with a screening of this hard-to-find Christmas special, along with some additional classic Henson holiday clips. Introduced by Craig Shemin, President of The Jim Henson Legacy.
Bright Vignettes: How Astoria Got Its Pride
Bright Vignettes: How Astoria Got Its Pride
Astoria-based nonbinary filmmaker-artist Patrícia Silva’s new feature documentary contextualizes the achievements and activity leading up to the Astoria neighborhood’s inaugural Pride in 2023. Following the screening, join us for a special discussion with director Patrícia Silva and legendary guests in person.
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).
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Robert Altman's brilliant revisionist western, starring Warren Beatty as a huckster and gambler who takes over a small northwestern town at the turn of the twentieth century, screens in a rare IB Technicolor 35mm print on 12/14.
Direct Action
Direct Action
American experimental filmmaker Ben Russell and French artist Guillaume Cailleau collaborated on this epic experimental work, which intricately details the processes of a French political eco-activist group.
I Saw the TV Glow
I Saw the TV Glow
Jane Schoenbrun's eerily beautiful metaphorical evocation of the trans experience speaks to the isolation and confusion of growing up and the ways in which popular culture and media both comfort and betray us as we try and figure out who we are. With director Jane Schoenbrun in person!
John Denver & The Muppets: A Christmas Together (45th Anniversary) + Henson Holiday Clips
John Denver & The Muppets: A Christmas Together (45th Anniversary) + Henson Holiday Clips
Join us to celebrate the 45th anniversary of John Denver's 1979 Muppet hat trick (Muppet Show appearance, TV special, and album) on 12/14 and 12/15 with a screening of this hard-to-find Christmas special, along with some additional classic Henson holiday clips. Introduced by Craig Shemin, President of The Jim Henson Legacy.
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
The Camera d’Or winner at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival is a remarkable cinematic experience, a work that pushes past set boundaries to become genuinely existential, marking the arrival of a major new talent.
Marvels of Media: Game Design Workshop
Marvels of Media: Game Design Workshop
As part of Museum of the Moving Image’s Marvels of Media, this two-hour media workshop invites autistic visitors and media-makers to learn how to build their own text-based interactive storytelling games.
Dersu Uzala
Dersu Uzala
One of Akira Kurosawa’s greatest films, this spellbinding, Oscar-winning Soviet-Japanese coproduction follows a Russian cartographer at the turn of the twentieth century as he surveys a region in the Far East of Russia. Screens 12/7 and 12/15.
Matt and Mara
Matt and Mara
Reunited by chance, old flames Matt, a well-known author with a checkered reputation, and Mara, a mild-mannered and ambivalently married poetry professor, rekindle their romance over a series of anxious, halting, tentative rendezvous.
Between the Temples
Between the Temples
With a 1970s aesthetic and screwball comedy tone, Between the Temples featuring a pair of richly humane performances from Carol Kane and Jason Schwartzman. With director Nathan Silver and screenwriter Chris Wells in person on 12/15!