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GENERAL ADMISSION
You can buy admission tickets online. Pick a date and time to visit the Museum. Timed-entry slots are released generally one-month prior. All sales are final and payments cannot be refunded.
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.
Labyrinth
Labyrinth
Dir. Jim Henson. 1986, 101 mins. DCP. With Jennifer Connelly, David Bowie. In order to save her brother, who has been captured by the Goblin King, Sarah must find her way through a magical labyrinth. ...
8 Mile
8 Mile
A cinematic and musical triumph, 8 Mile boosted Eminem's lyricism to new heights. The Friday, September 1 screening co-presented with Afrikan Poetry Theatre and followed by a panel discussion.
Passages
Passages
The latest from celebrated filmmaker Ira Sachs (Love Is Strange) is also his sharpest and sexiest drama yet—starring Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw, and Adèle Exarchopoulos
Kubo and the Two Strings
Kubo and the Two Strings
Inspired by Japanese folklore, LAIKA’s stop-motion adventure Kubo and the Two Strings constructs an original fantasy world of monsters, magical creatures, and myths. Playing Labor Day weekend at MoMI, 9/2–9/4.
My Beautiful Laundrette
My Beautiful Laundrette
In this Thatcher-era smash, Omar (Gordon Warnecke), a first-generation Pakistani-British man living in London, encounters his childhood friend turned skinhead Johnny (Daniel Day-Lewis), and love unexpectedly blooms while they manage Omar’s family laundry business.
8 Mile
8 Mile
A cinematic and musical triumph, 8 Mile boosted Eminem's lyricism to new heights. The Friday, September 1 screening co-presented with Afrikan Poetry Theatre and followed by a panel discussion.
Brick Lane
Brick Lane
Based on the novel by Monica Ali, Brick Lane is a tender depiction of the Bangladeshi community, immersing the viewer in a time and place marked by crisis without reducing the very full characters to political allegory.
Passages
Passages
The latest from celebrated filmmaker Ira Sachs (Love Is Strange) is also his sharpest and sexiest drama yet—starring Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw, and Adèle Exarchopoulos
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.
Kubo and the Two Strings
Kubo and the Two Strings
Inspired by Japanese folklore, LAIKA’s stop-motion adventure Kubo and the Two Strings constructs an original fantasy world of monsters, magical creatures, and myths. Playing Labor Day weekend at MoMI, 9/2–9/4.
Nothing Compares
Nothing Compares
As a tribute to Sinéad O'Connor, see this richly cinematic portrait of this fearless trailblazer through a contemporary feminist lens on 9/3 and 9/10.
The Butcher Boy
The Butcher Boy
In one of her few screen appearances as an actor, Sinéad O’Connor makes an appearance as the Virgin Mary in Neil Jordan's adaptation of Patrick McCabe’s 1994 novel.
Passages
Passages
The latest from celebrated filmmaker Ira Sachs (Love Is Strange) is also his sharpest and sexiest drama yet—starring Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw, and Adèle Exarchopoulos
Passages
Passages
The latest from celebrated filmmaker Ira Sachs (Love Is Strange) is also his sharpest and sexiest drama yet—starring Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw, and Adèle Exarchopoulos
The Wrong Guy Special Reunion Screening
The Wrong Guy Special Reunion Screening
On 9/3, join us for a special screening of the out-of-print underground comedy classic, which deliriously mixes Hitchcock homage, inspired absurdism, class-conscious parody, and rapid-fire wit, calling to mind its creators and stars' work on The Kids in the Hall, The Simpsons, and SCTV—with Dave Foley, David Higgins, and Jay Kogen in a post-film discussion, moderated by Janeane Garofalo!