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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.
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.
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!
Geographies of Solitude
Geographies of Solitude
Screening on 1/27, as part of Science on Screen, one of the most acclaimed documentaries of 2022, set on the legendary Sable Island, known for its herd of wild horses, unparalleled population of grey seals, and shipwrecks.
All That Heaven Allows
The Moon Palace
The Moon Palace
Qiu’s remarkable debut is an experimental black-and-white documentary portrait of his father.
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.
Artist in Conversation: sTo Len
Artist in Conversation: sTo Len
On January 28, artist sTo Len will be in conversation with Assistant Curator of Public Programs Tiffany Joy Butler to discuss his artistic practice of remixing DSNY’s media archives and his residency at the New York Department of Sanitation.
Madame
Madame
This vibrant portrait of trans performer ‘Bilan de Linphel’ (birth name Fan Qihui) is both intimate and exhilaratingly expansive.
Make Way for Tomorrow
Make Way for Tomorrow
Dir. Leo McCarey. 1937, 92 mins. 35mm. With Beulah Bondi, Victor Moore, Thomas Mitchell, Fay Bainter. When McCarey won the Best Director Oscar in 1937 for his sparkling screwball comedy The Awful Truth, he stood ...
My Mother’s Rhapsody
My Mother’s Rhapsody
This thoroughly entertaining film is Qiu’s expansive family chronicle, a documentary in the form of an art-folk tale.
My Friend, Lefterakis
My Friend, Lefterakis
Replete with intrigue and hilarious surprises, this classic, beloved farce from Greece's famed Finos Film studio concerns a woman who devises a devilish plan to expose her husband's cheating ways.
Mr. Zhang Believes
Mr. Zhang Believes
Qiu’s brilliant fiction-documentary hybrid is based on the life of Zhang Xianchi, a so-called “rightist” persecuted for his unorthodox beliefs.
Make Way for Tomorrow
Make Way for Tomorrow
Dir. Leo McCarey. 1937, 92 mins. 35mm. With Beulah Bondi, Victor Moore, Thomas Mitchell, Fay Bainter. When McCarey won the Best Director Oscar in 1937 for his sparkling screwball comedy The Awful Truth, he stood ...