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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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.
2001: A Space Odyssey (70mm)
2001: A Space Odyssey (70mm)
See Stanley Kubrick's cinema-shifting masterwork in 70mm August 3–27 at MoMI.
Past Lives
Past Lives
Don't miss this acclaimed, heartrending modern romance, directed by Celine Song, which plays at MoMI 7/28–8/13.
2001: A Space Odyssey (70mm)
2001: A Space Odyssey (70mm)
See Stanley Kubrick's cinema-shifting masterwork in 70mm August 3–27 at MoMI.
Belly
Belly
Celebrated music video director Hype Williams made his feature debut with this riveting American crime drama starring Earl “DMX” Simmons, Nasir “Nas” Jones.
Access Mornings at MoMI
Access Mornings at MoMI
Offered the first Saturday of each month (June 2023–May 2024), free Access Mornings at MoMI are dedicated to families with children on the autism spectrum and give families an exclusive opportunity to explore exhibitions and ...
Speedy
Speedy
Featuring an indelible visit to Coney Island, a cameo appearance by Babe Ruth himself, and one of the greatest chases in silent film comedy, Harold Lloyd’s final masterpiece is a rollicking summer ride through old New York. Screening 8/5 and 8/6!
Starman
Starman
Horror master Carpenter shifted gears in 1984 for this gentle yet commanding extra-terrestrial love story starring an Oscar-nominated Bridges as an outer-space being who crash lands in Wisconsin.
Junk Dump Film Festival
Junk Dump Film Festival
Founded in 2020 in New York, Junk Dump Magazine collaborates with its international community to produce a semi-annual print publication and events like Junk Dump Film Festival on August 5. The festival highlights emerging and underrepresented filmmakers working at the intersection of video art and storytelling.
Inception
Inception
The Hollywood high-concept thriller hit a baroque high with Christopher Nolan’s heist movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio, playing on 70mm 8/5–8/17.
Junk Dump Film Festival
Junk Dump Film Festival
Founded in 2020 in New York, Junk Dump Magazine collaborates with its international community to produce a semi-annual print publication and events like Junk Dump Film Festival on August 5. The festival highlights emerging and underrepresented filmmakers working at the intersection of video art and storytelling.
Speedy
Speedy
Featuring an indelible visit to Coney Island, a cameo appearance by Babe Ruth himself, and one of the greatest chases in silent film comedy, Harold Lloyd’s final masterpiece is a rollicking summer ride through old New York. Screening 8/5 and 8/6!
Inception
Inception
The Hollywood high-concept thriller hit a baroque high with Christopher Nolan’s heist movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio, playing on 70mm 8/5–8/17.
Past Lives
Past Lives
Don't miss this acclaimed, heartrending modern romance, directed by Celine Song, which plays at MoMI 7/28–8/13.
2001: A Space Odyssey (70mm)
2001: A Space Odyssey (70mm)
See Stanley Kubrick's cinema-shifting masterwork in 70mm August 3–27 at MoMI.
Past Lives
Past Lives
Don't miss this acclaimed, heartrending modern romance, directed by Celine Song, which plays at MoMI 7/28–8/13.