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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.
Beau Is Afraid with Ari Aster in person
Beau Is Afraid with Ari Aster in person
In Ari Aster's wild, tongue-in-cheek odyssey, a modern-day Job named Beau (a remarkable Joaquin Phoenix), beset by terrors real and imagined, escapes a cartoonish, satirically degenerate cityscape only to wind his way through a series of false paradises. Aster will appear in person for a discussion of the film.
Turning Red
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Spielberg’s monumental production of Kubrick’s science-fiction dream project is a bold, humanistic vision, screening 5/12 & 5/13 for Mother's Day weekend as part of our ongoing series MoMI Loves.
Computer Chess
Computer Chess
Set in the 1980s at the start of the tech revolution, Bujalski's film was shot entirely on a consumer-grade Sony videocamera and features meticulous production design. The screening on 5/12 will be followed by a Q&A with actor Robin Schwartz and Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Brown University’s Director of the Center for Tech Responsibility.
The Jim Henson Legacy: A 30th Anniversary Celebration
The Jim Henson Legacy: A 30th Anniversary Celebration
On 5/13, to commemorate 30 years of The Jim Henson Legacy's work preserving Jim Henson's art, past and present members of the Board of Trustees and staff will discuss the organization's accomplishments.
The Omen
The Omen
With its unforgettable, symphonic shocks (including one of the most lauded decapitations in film history), this is deliriously demonic entertainment, featuring a terrifying, Oscar-winning score by Jerry Goldsmith
Colección Privada: Spain’s Super 8 and 16mm Scene
Colección Privada: Spain’s Super 8 and 16mm Scene
Paying tribute to an extraordinary moment in Spanish poetic cinema, this special program on 5/13 brings together filmmakers who transcend theatrical conventions through the performative use of multiple projectors, supplementary screens, live sound, and their own bodies.
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Spielberg’s monumental production of Kubrick’s science-fiction dream project is a bold, humanistic vision, screening 5/12 & 5/13 for Mother's Day weekend as part of our ongoing series MoMI Loves.