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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.
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.
The Night of the Hunter
The Night of the Hunter
Acting legend Charles Laughton’s sole screen directorial credit is perhaps cinema’s most remarkable one-off.
Show Boat
Show Boat
Expressively adapted for the screen by James Whale, this Jerome Kern–Oscar Hammerstein musical, featuring Paul Robeson and Irene Dunne, was considered radical at the time for its serious treatment of race.
A New Old Play
A New Old Play
On February 4 and 5, see encore screenings of Qiu Jiongjiong's hand-crafted masterwork, an homage to classical Chinese opera.
The Women
The Women
There’s not a man to be found in Cukor’s dazzlingly witty, razor-sharp comedy released in 1939 and starring Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Norma Shearer, and more.
The Night of the Hunter
The Night of the Hunter
Acting legend Charles Laughton’s sole screen directorial credit is perhaps cinema’s most remarkable one-off.
A New Old Play
A New Old Play
On February 4 and 5, see encore screenings of Qiu Jiongjiong's hand-crafted masterwork, an homage to classical Chinese opera.
The Women
The Women
There’s not a man to be found in Cukor’s dazzlingly witty, razor-sharp comedy released in 1939 and starring Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Norma Shearer, and more.
All That Heaven Allows
Play of Glances: Three Works by Maryam Tafakory
Play of Glances: Three Works by Maryam Tafakory
This program on 2/5 features two of Iranian artist Maryam Tafakory’s resonant short films, as well as a rarely performed live piece for which there can be no recording or other form of documentation.