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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.
With Music in Mind: The New York Pops
With Music in Mind: The New York Pops
This event on 5/18 is intended to provide individuals living with Alzheimer’s and dementia an opportunity to connect with their strongest memories associated with classic movies and their iconic soundtracks.
2023 Teen Film Festival
2023 Teen Film Festival
On May 19, join us for the annual Teen Film Festival, hosted by the MoMI Teen Council! The festival will feature a screening of 18 selected short film works from the five New York boroughs by local teen filmmakers.
Children of the Mist
Children of the Mist
In a village hidden in the mist-shrouded Northwest Vietnamese mountains resides an indigenous Hmong community, home to 12-year-old Di, part of the first generation of her people with access to formal education.
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.
Program X: Cultural Activism and Media Festival
Program X: Cultural Activism and Media Festival
Celebrate the powerful films of local documentary filmmakers and participants of Program X: Cultural Activism and Media, a workshop and festival that reflects on the intersections of culture, activism, and media.
Jennifer’s Body
Jennifer’s Body
Karyn Kusama's teen horror cult favorite, featuring Diablo Cody’s signature droll and idiosyncratic dialogue, is the ultimate ode to toxic femininity. Introduced on May 20 by critic Kyle Turner and followed by a signing of his new book The Queer Film Guide.
Hellraiser
Hellraiser
See Clive Barker’s genre-defining horror classic as part of our Disreputable Cinema series, followed by a book signing with Preston Fassel, author of the new novel Beasts of 42nd Street.
Morocco
Morocco
Dietrich’s nightclub entrance in Morocco as sultry performer Amy Jolly doubled as Dietrich’s indelible entrance into Hollywood.
Rope
Rope
Contemporary critics may have all but ignored what was going on between Hitchcock's Leopold and Loeb–like killers in favor of fixating on its form—a movie told in real time through extended shots and invisible cuts—modern audiences can revel in the simmering erotic tension between Granger and Dall.
The Fly
The Fly
Body horror maestro Cronenberg’s fascination with the limits and possibilities of the flesh, the potentials of technology and science, and humans reaching for godlike power hit its watershed with this horror romance.
The Padilla Affair (El Caso Padilla)
The Padilla Affair (El Caso Padilla)
Screening 5/21, this portrait of the Cuban poet Heberto Padilla is an astonishing documentary that explores aspects of Cuba's past that still reverberate, including the struggle for freedom of expression.
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