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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.
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.
Bend It Like Beckham
Bend It Like Beckham
In this megahit from 2002, Jess (Parminda Nagra) wants to pursue a passion for football, to the chagrin of her parents, who want her to live up to their ideas of a woman’s duties and fear for her acceptance due to their own traumatic experiences.
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.
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
Any Given Sunday
Any Given Sunday
Oliver Stone brings his one-of-a-kind talent for capturing beauty amid chaos to this portrait of the suffering, pride, and grit of professional football and the equally cutthroat nature of its business.
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
Inside Out
Inside Out
Pixar's Oscar-winning animated feature vividly imagines five emotions as its main characters, vying for equilibrium inside the mind of an 11-year-old girl.
Elementary Triptych of Spain
Elementary Triptych of Spain
The films that comprise José Val del Omar’s Elementary Triptych of Spain (1953–1995) are audiovisual poems of the senses, presenting cinema as a total experience. See them all followed by a presentation by Piluca Baquero, director of the Val del Omar Archive on 9/9.
Mirror to Val del Omar’s Elementary Triptych of Spain
Mirror to Val del Omar’s Elementary Triptych of Spain
This program on 9/9, presented by program curator Elena Duque, is structured to mirror the formal and aesthetic concerns of José Val del Omar’s Elementary Triptych of Spain, and place his work in conversation with others by historically significant and contemporary experimental filmmakers.
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.
King Coal
King Coal
Native Appalachian and Academy Award–nominated filmmaker Elaine McMillion Sheldon joins us in person 9/9 for a screening of her alluring cinematic journey through the past, present, and future of Appalachia
25th Hour
25th Hour
Spike Lee's thrillingly made psychological diagnosis of both a man and a city was the first major movie to acknowledge the September 11th attacks. Screening September 9 and 10.
Inside Out
Inside Out
Pixar's Oscar-winning animated feature vividly imagines five emotions as its main characters, vying for equilibrium inside the mind of an 11-year-old girl.
25th Hour
25th Hour
Spike Lee's thrillingly made psychological diagnosis of both a man and a city was the first major movie to acknowledge the September 11th attacks. Screening September 9 and 10.
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.
Hard, Fast and Beautiful
Hard, Fast and Beautiful
Trailblazer Ida Lupino’s fourth film as a director stars Trevor as Millie Farley, a manipulative, parasitic mother to Forrest’s Florence, a burgeoning tennis star. Features stirring tennis action largely filmed on location at Forest Hills Stadium, former home of the U.S. Open.
Any Given Sunday
Any Given Sunday
Oliver Stone brings his one-of-a-kind talent for capturing beauty amid chaos to this portrait of the suffering, pride, and grit of professional football and the equally cutthroat nature of its business.