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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.
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.
Twitch, Pop, Bloom: Science in Action
This video exhibition presents films produced for scientific education and entertainment between 1904 and 1936, an era when cinema was still a novel tool for manipulating time and scale to show what was imperceptible to the naked eye.
Tales in the Holoverse
The Museum is collaborating with creative technology studio Scatter on this project, which reimagines oral storytelling as a virtual, 3D experience and presents new possibilities for the future of the moving image.
Living with The Walking Dead
This major new exhibition addresses the origins, production, fandom, and impact of The Walking Dead, one of the most watched shows in the history of cable television. Presented with support from AMC Networks.
Shame (Deborra-lee Furness in person)
Shame (Deborra-lee Furness in person)
On July 28, the director-performer-producer joins us to discuss this gem of the gathering Australian New Wave of the '80s, plus reception.
Making Connections Through Puppetry: Educators, Counselors, and Therapists
Making Connections Through Puppetry: Educators, Counselors, and Therapists
This two-part professional development workshop series teaches educators, therapists, counselors, and parents how to use puppets when working with neurodiverse children, including those on the autism spectrum. July 29 and August 12.
Floating Life
Floating Life
Part fish-out-of-water comedy, part family melodrama, this warm-hearted, hilarious, and sharply observed depiction of the Chinese diaspora by Clara Law screens August 6 and 14.
A Night of Knowing Nothing
A Night of Knowing Nothing
Best Documentary winner at Cannes, this debut film by Payal Kapadia deftly merges reality with fiction, weaving together archival footage and student protest videos to create a vital tapestry of the personal and the political—screens July 29 and 31.
Broken Highway
Broken Highway
Laurie McInnes here makes her feature directorial debut with this haunting, dusty Australian gothic noir, shot in rich black-and-white.
The Big Steal
The Big Steal
Featuring a post-screening discussion with director Nadia Tass, co-presented with New York Women in Film & Television Dir. Nadia Tass. 1990, 99 mins. 35mm. With Ben Mendelsohn, Claudia Karvan, Steve Bisley, Damon Herriman. Teenager Danny ...
Only the Brave + Greetings from Wollongong
Only the Brave + Greetings from Wollongong
Two films of working class families in the '80s and '90s, each presented in 16mm.
Celia
Celia
Exposed to a new, post-innocent world, eight-year-old Celia attempts to navigate fantasy and reality—a nuanced coming-of-age tale, with mythological elements, set against the backdrop of 1950s conservatism.
BeDevil
BeDevil
Celebrated visual artist Tracey Moffatt’s only feature film is a triptych of strange ghost stories rendered with a vivid staginess and dark humor, screening July 30 and August 13.
Love and Other Catastrophes
Love and Other Catastrophes
Set over 24 hours, this low-budget, independent comedy about love, friendship, share-houses, and university bureaucracy sizzles with sharp dialogue and radiant performances from its young leads.
The Batwoman (La mujer murciélago)
The Batwoman (La mujer murciélago)
Taking advantage of Batman’s increased popularity, director René Cardona, known later for his luchador adventures, aimed to showcase the talents of actress Maura Monti by splicing elements of “Batmania” with Mexico’s popular lucha libre style. New restoration!