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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
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.
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.
Living with The Walking Dead
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.
LAIKA: Life in Stop Motion
LAIKA: Life in Stop Motion
This new exhibition invites visitors of all ages to appreciate the painstaking work of stop-motion animation, with eight animation stations equipped with 2-D LAIKA character figures and environments that visitors can use to experiment with and create their own short films.
Adapting Stories for the Screen: Chinonye Chukwu’s Till
Adapting Stories for the Screen: Chinonye Chukwu’s Till
This new temporary exhibition explores the process of creating the story depicted in Chinonye Chukwu’s acclaimed 2022 feature Till, through storyboards created by Jesse Michael Owen.
Adapting Stories for the Screen: Sarah Polley’s Women Talking
Adapting Stories for the Screen: Sarah Polley’s Women Talking
The material on view in this new exhibition provides a glimpse into the process of bringing the story of Sarah Polley’s film Women Talking to the screen.
Office of In Visibility Presents: SAN TV
Office of In Visibility Presents: SAN TV
With this video installation by artist sTo Len, who is currently a Public Artist in Residence (PAIR) at the New York City Department of Sanitation, viewers have the chance to report, via green screen, from various shuttered waste sites in New York City, such as the Fresh Kills Landfill.
On the Morning You Wake to Nuclear Threat: Exploring Social Impact Through Virtual Reality
On the Morning You Wake to Nuclear Threat: Exploring Social Impact Through Virtual Reality
This immersive VR experience humanizes the potential of nuclear catastrophe, focusing on how the presence, production, and use of nuclear weapons can only lead to violence and destruction.
Till
Till
This profoundly emotional and brilliantly visualized film tells the true story of Mamie Till Mobley’s relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till.
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Marcel is an adorable one-inch-tall shell who ekes out a colorful existence with his grandmother Connie and their pet lint, Alan. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On plays so successfully as a documentary that you might catch yourself believing it’s true.
Donnie Darko: The Director’s Cut
Donnie Darko: The Director’s Cut
Richard Kelly’s horror-tinged drama about a suburban kid (Jake Gyllenhaal) plagued by apocalyptic visions is one of the true cult classics of the 21st century. November 18–19.
The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep
On 1/20, we kick off our Snubbed series with Howard Hawks’s unqualified noir masterpiece, starring Bogart as Philip Marlowe, a private detective hired to investigate a series of troubles plaguing an affluent family.
Donnie Darko: The Director’s Cut
Donnie Darko: The Director’s Cut
Richard Kelly’s horror-tinged drama about a suburban kid (Jake Gyllenhaal) plagued by apocalyptic visions is one of the true cult classics of the 21st century. November 18–19.
City Lights
City Lights
Investing two years and two million dollars, Chaplin dared to make a silent picture four years after synchronized sound revolutionized cinema—and created his masterpiece. See it on the big screen 1/21 & 1/22!
Armageddon Time
Armageddon Time
American cinema classicist James Gray proves yet again his crucial place in the contemporary cinematic landscape with this profoundly felt, autobiographically inspired coming-of-age drama set in Queens circa 1980.
A New Old Play
A New Old Play
On January 21 and 22, see Qiu Jiongjiong's hand-crafted masterwork, an homage to classical Chinese opera.
City Lights
City Lights
Investing two years and two million dollars, Chaplin dared to make a silent picture four years after synchronized sound revolutionized cinema—and created his masterpiece. See it on the big screen 1/21 & 1/22!
Ode to Joy + A Portrait of Mr. Huang
Ode to Joy + A Portrait of Mr. Huang
On 1/22, we begin our Qiu Jiongjiong retrospective with these two playful and entertaining short documentaries, introduced by guest curator Shelly Kraicer.
The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep
On 1/20, we kick off our Snubbed series with Howard Hawks’s unqualified noir masterpiece, starring Bogart as Philip Marlowe, a private detective hired to investigate a series of troubles plaguing an affluent family.
A New Old Play
A New Old Play
On January 22, see Qiu Jiongjiong's hand-crafted masterwork, an homage to classical Chinese opera.
In a Lonely Place
In a Lonely Place
This moody and electrifying thriller with Humphrey Bogart and directed by Nicholas Ray, master of the fifties melodrama about troubled masculinity, is among Hollywood’s darkest character studies.