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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: Imagination Unlimited
This traveling exhibition explores Jim Henson’s groundbreaking work for film and television and his transformative impact on popular culture.
The Jim Henson Exhibition
This dynamic experience explores Jim Henson’s groundbreaking work for film and television and his transformative impact on culture.
Creatures from the Land of Thra: Character Design for The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
This exhibition explores the process of designing the fantastical characters for the Netflix series prequel to the 1982 film.
The Situation Room
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.
Dialogues with the Unseen: Short Films from Southeast Asia
Six short works that touch on the theme of unseen forces that shape our world, created by artists from Southeast Asia.
Icons: Framing Images of Black Women on Movie Posters
An exhibit of lobby cards and posters from the 1930s through the 2010s for American films with Black women in featured roles.
An Act of Seeing: Barry Jenkins’s The Gaze
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.
“A Wonderful, Awful Idea”: Animating the Grinch Who Stole Christmas
The sketches, animation cels, and backgrounds illustrate Chuck Jones’s approach to adapting Theodor Geisel’s classic story for the screen in this temporary exhibition.
Deepfake: Unstable Evidence on Screen
“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.
This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection
This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection
Visionary new filmmaker Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese was inspired by real-life events about his grandmother’s village on the verge of displacement.
The Last Voyage + Tarzan’s Fight For Life
The Last Voyage + Tarzan’s Fight For Life
A special double feature presentation that traces Woody Strode's rise, in three short years, from mute muscle to scene-stealing action hero.
Belle
Belle
Oscar-nominated director Mamoru Hosoda’s original story reimagines the classic tale of “Beauty and the Beast” in a massive virtual world, aided by a soaring pop soundtrack.
Test Pattern
Test Pattern
On February 19, Shatara Michelle Ford appears in person with her brilliant debut about the dynamics of sex and power in contemporary society.
The Professionals
The Professionals
Woody Strode plays a lethal bow assassin in Richard Brooks’s Academy Award–nominated western.
The Viewing Booth
The Viewing Booth
On February 20, Ra'anan Alexandrowicz joins us for a special Curators' Choice screening of his gripping documentary.
A Simple Man
A Simple Man
Dir. Tassos Gerakinis. 2019, 95 mins. DCP. In Greek with English subtitles. With Takis Sakellariou, Katerina Papanastassatou, Christos Strepkos, Yorgos Souxes, Nikolas Kassapis. In debt and struggling to save his relationship with his headstrong daughter, ...