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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.
Celebrate Juneteenth at MoMI 2023
Celebrate Juneteenth at MoMI 2023
Join us for a weekend of performances, film screenings, media-making activities, and a gallery talk.
The Wiz
The Wiz
June 17–19, join us for the beloved musical, featuring a dazzling all Black cast and iconic images of 1970s New York City that transform the ruins of the 1964 World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows Corona Park into a magical cityscape.
Beat Street
Beat Street
The Harry Belafonte–produced, Arthur Baker–scored Beat Street made a bigger impact globally than Breakin' and has aged much better as both a Black-led musical and an invaluable document of early ’80s hip-hop culture in New York.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Spielberg’s enduring masterpiece, one of the most wondrous and deeply touching of all science-fiction movies, screens 6/23, 6/25 & 7/1.
Querelle
Querelle
Fassbinder's final completed film, an adaptation of Jean Genet’s novel Querelle de Brest, packs his sexual energy and ambivalence into a powder keg, with Brad Davis as a classic Genet character.
32 Sounds
32 Sounds
A cinematic experience truly unlike any other, 32 Sounds investigates the mysterious nature of perception and the subtle yet radical politics that arise from sensation and being present in one’s body.
The Great Muppet Caper
The Great Muppet Caper
Jim Henson’s feature directorial debut brings the Muppets to England, where reporters Kermit and Fozzie (and their photographer Gonzo) are tracking down jewel thieves who have set their sights on the incredibly valuable Baseball Diamond.
MENASA Pride Month Shorts Showcase
MENASA Pride Month Shorts Showcase
On June 24, for pride month, we collaborate with Brown Girls Doc Mafia and Slamdance to present an all-queer Muslim documentary extravaganza. These shorts reflect the beautiful kaleidoscope of queer MENASA people, asserting our existence, connection, and joy.
The Green Ray (Le rayon vert)
The Green Ray (Le rayon vert)
One of the great movies set during summertime, Eric Rohmer’s emotionally complex yet intensely satisfying tale deals with the anxieties and pleasures of that elusive thing known as vacation.
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
This pivotal 1950s monster movie influenced generations of genre films, including the Godzilla franchise, with its tremendous stop-motion special effects created by the legendary Ray Harryhausen.
Risky Business
Risky Business
This sexually sophisticated, sharp commentary on the growing capitalist mania of the Reagan era made Tom Cruise a star. Screening in 35mm on 6/24 and 6/25.
The Great Muppet Caper
The Great Muppet Caper
Jim Henson’s feature directorial debut brings the Muppets to England, where reporters Kermit and Fozzie (and their photographer Gonzo) are tracking down jewel thieves who have set their sights on the incredibly valuable Baseball Diamond.
Risky Business
Risky Business
This sexually sophisticated, sharp commentary on the growing capitalist mania of the Reagan era made Tom Cruise a star. Screening in 35mm on 6/24 and 6/25.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Spielberg’s enduring masterpiece, one of the most wondrous and deeply touching of all science-fiction movies, screens 6/23, 6/25 & 7/1.
The Watermelon Woman
The Watermelon Woman
For her wildly assured and wonderful 1996 feature, multihyphenate Dunye dives into a meta-cinematic world of cultural history, self-interrogation, cinematic dialectics, and sex and romance.
The Green Ray (Le rayon vert)
The Green Ray (Le rayon vert)
One of the great movies set during summertime, Eric Rohmer’s emotionally complex yet intensely satisfying tale deals with the anxieties and pleasures of that elusive thing known as vacation.
Blow Out
Blow Out
John Travolta gives one of his strongest performances as a movie sound man in Brian De Palma’s masterful and ambitious variation on Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow Up.