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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.
Cinema of Sensations: The Never-Ending Screen of Val del Omar
Cinema of Sensations: The Never-Ending Screen of Val del Omar
This major exhibition brings the immersive, multisensory cinematic installations of visionary Spanish artist, filmmaker, and inventor José Val del Omar (1904–1982) to U.S. audiences for the first time, along with commissioned pieces by contemporary artists Sally Golding, Matt Spendlove, and Tim Cowlishaw; Duo Prismáticas; Esperanza Collado; and Colectivo Los Ingrávidos.
Refreshing the Loop
Refreshing the Loop
Refreshing the Loop continues Museum of the Moving Image’s tradition of displaying GIFs in our passenger elevator. This new iteration places artists who have been widely known for their GIFs for more than two decades in conversation with selected artists who have gained notable popularity in the last few years.
Hello Dankness
Hello Dankness
Prismatic Ground's May 3 opening night selection is a political fable that bears witness to the psychotropic spectacle of American politics from 2016 to 2021.
The 2023 Claire Shulman Awards
The 2023 Claire Shulman Awards
We inaugurate a special event, honoring excellence in public service and business leadership in Queens, dedicated to Claire Shulman, who served as Queens Borough President from 1986 to 2002, and during her tenure, was instrumental in the establishment and development of Museum of the Moving Image. Honorees include: K. Bain, Thomas J. Grech, Melva Miller, and Hal Rosenbluth. Learn more.
Major League
Major League
This crowd-pleasing comedy was a box-office breakout and would prove an enduring touchstone within baseball culture that then became reference points for and inspired nicknames and ballpark singalongs.
LARP: Creatures of The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
LARP: Creatures of The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
Join us for a live-action role-playing game to explore the fantastical and sometimes terrifying stories of the planet Thra, designed and led by game designer, writer, and interactive artist Sharang Biswas and MoMI educators.
Jaws
Jaws
The summer movie that started it all, this improbable, against-all-odds blockbuster about a New England vacation spot terrorized by a great white shark proved that Spielberg was a force to be reckoned with.
Turning Red
In Jackson Heights
In Jackson Heights
The teeming diversity of Jackson Heights, and the larger landscape of Queens itself, is the subject of Frederick Wiseman’s acclaimed nonfiction epic, screening at MoMI 5/6 and 5/7.
Jaws
Jaws
The summer movie that started it all, this improbable, against-all-odds blockbuster about a New England vacation spot terrorized by a great white shark proved that Spielberg was a force to be reckoned with.
Forest of Bliss + Luminous People
Forest of Bliss + Luminous People
These innovative works of nonfiction screening on 5/6 offer astonishing visuals and a profound ability to capture the essence of place and people.
The Spy Who Loved Me
The Spy Who Loved Me
With a few exceptions, previous James Bond films were the domain of fall and winter, whereas The Spy Who Loved Me, riding the industry-redefining wave created by Jaws, brought Bond to summertime.
Turning Red
In Jackson Heights
In Jackson Heights
The teeming diversity of Jackson Heights, and the larger landscape of Queens itself, is the subject of Frederick Wiseman’s acclaimed nonfiction epic, screening at MoMI 5/6 and 5/7.
Man of God
Man of God
Man of God brings to life the incredible true story of Saint Nektarios of Aegina, Greece. A priest of the common people, he annoyed the prideful orthodox clergy of the day with his humility.
The Spy Who Loved Me
The Spy Who Loved Me
With a few exceptions, previous James Bond films were the domain of fall and winter, whereas The Spy Who Loved Me, riding the industry-redefining wave created by Jaws, brought Bond to summertime.