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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.
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.
Mariupolis
Mariupolis
Lithuanian director Mantas Kvedaravicius's portrait of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol in the wake of Russia’s siege of Crimea in 2014
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.
Mariupolis 2
Mariupolis 2
After Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, director Mantas Kvedaravicius revisited the people and places he captured in his 2016 film in this new work that debuted at the Cannes Film Festival posthumously.
Airport
Airport
Epically filmed by 70mm veteran Ernest Laszlo, Airport sparked the star-studded disaster blockbuster genre that is still going strong today. Screens 8/19–8/26 in a double feature with its spoof Airplane!
Mariupolis
Mariupolis
Lithuanian director Mantas Kvedaravicius's portrait of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol in the wake of Russia’s siege of Crimea in 2014
Idlewild (with summer dance party)
Idlewild (with summer dance party)
Lifelong compatriots Rooster and Percival Jenkins hatch a plan to save a Georgia nightclub called "The Church” from vengeful hustler Trumpy (Terrence Howard) in this film starring OutKast, followed by a summer dance party featuring legendary DJ Wiz of Kid ‘n Play, DJ Kaykay47, and Bossman on 8/19!
Airplane!
Airplane!
The wild comedy spoof Airplane! sparked a spoof comedy explosion. Screening 8/19, 8/26, and 9/2 alongside a 70mm screening of Airport, the self-serious disaster melodrama that inspired it.
Real Rap Summer Dance Party
Real Rap Summer Dance Party
Join us August 19 for an outdoor dance party celebrating the Real Rap series with music by DJ Wiz, DJ Kaykay47, and Bossman.
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Malcolm X
Malcolm X
Spike Lee's remarkable film, one of the most visually splendid, emotionally gripping, and historically honest Hollywood biopics ever made, screens on 70mm 8/12–8/20.
Mariupolis 2
Mariupolis 2
After Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, director Mantas Kvedaravicius revisited the people and places he captured in his 2016 film in this new work that debuted at the Cannes Film Festival posthumously.
Jesús López
Jesús López
The fourth feature from Maximiliano Schonfeld is a captivating and elegantly directed mystical tale about community grief and emancipation.
2001: A Space Odyssey (70mm)
2001: A Space Odyssey (70mm)
See Stanley Kubrick's cinema-shifting masterwork in 70mm August 3–27 at MoMI.