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GENERAL ADMISSION
You can buy admission tickets online. Pick a date and time to visit the Museum. Timed-entry slots are released generally one-month prior. All sales are final and payments cannot be refunded.
Week of Events
Tut’s Fever Movie Palace
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Icons: Framing Images of Black Women on Movie Posters
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
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.
Deepfake: Unstable Evidence on Screen
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.
Atlantis
Atlantis
On March 25 and 27, see Valentyn Vasyanovych's ominous, visionary masterstroke of speculative fiction, set in 2025 where Eastern Ukraine lies ravaged and desolate.
F for Fake
F for Fake
Orson Welles's groundbreaking essay film presents a hall of mirrors portrait of professional art forger Elmyr de Hory, as well as literary fraudster Clifford Irving, at the former's home in Ibiza.
First Look Shorts: Emerging Artists Showcase
First Look Shorts: Emerging Artists Showcase
Four films by recent and current student filmmakers, including two documentaries by Slovakian filmmaker Marek Moučka and two narrative works by students from the SVA BFA Film department.
Black Level
Black Level
On the cusp of his fiftieth birthday, Kostya, a wedding photographer who earns his living capturing others’ happiest moments, finds his life has fallen apart.
A New Old Play
A New Old Play
On March 26, see a First Look encore screening of Qiu Jiongjiong's hand-crafted masterwork, an homage to classical Chinese opera.
Crepuscule + Counterclockwise (Against the Sun)
Crepuscule + Counterclockwise (Against the Sun)
Two personal documentary portraits from director Valentyn Vasyanovych.
Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash
Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash
Indonesian auteur Edwin’s exhilarating whatsit blends grindhouse exploitation with meet-cute romance and magical realism in the form of a shaggy dog road movie.
First Look Shorts: Nonfiction Showcase
First Look Shorts: Nonfiction Showcase
Four films from First Look 2022 that exemplify the diversity of the nonfiction short form.
King Otto
King Otto
On March 27, witness the improbable underdog story of the Greek national soccer team, led by legendary German coach “King” Otto Rehhagel. Special event featuring discussion and audience Q&A with players Giorgos Karagounis and Antonios Nikopolidis of the 2004 Greek National Championship Team, and coaches Otto Rehhagel and Ioannis Topaldis!
Reflection
Reflection
Ukrainian filmmaker Valentyn Vasyanovych's latest is a grim and bloody tour de force of long-take cinema, obliterating the imaginary line between states of peace and states of war.