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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.
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.
A Haunting in Venice
A Haunting in Venice
Set in eerie, post-World War II Venice on All Hallows’ Eve, A Haunting in Venice is a terrifying mystery featuring the return of the celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot. Special advance screening 9/13.
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; these encore screenings will take place in the Bartos Screening Room on DCP.
Janie Geiser Program 1: The Nervous Films + The Red Book and The Fourth Watch
Janie Geiser Program 1: The Nervous Films + The Red Book and The Fourth Watch
This program features Janie Geiser's series of five collage-based films made of found and natural objects, medical illustrations, photographs, extant footage, and other elements. Plus two of her most acclaimed short films. With Janie Geiser in person!
Fremont
Fremont
Jalali’s Sundance standout, about a newly immigrated twentysomething from Afghanistan in the San Francisco Bay Area, has an exquisitely modulated tone all its own: somewhere between deadpan comedy and offhand sorrow. Screening 9/15–9/24.
Janie Geiser Program 2: Time, a substance
Janie Geiser Program 2: Time, a substance
This program, titled after a phrase from Marianne Moore’s poem “Black Earth,” includes several films that were made during the intense first years of the pandemic. The films evoke a sense of suspended time and the liminal space between life and death. With Janie Geiser in person!
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
See one of cinema’s grandest and most powerful antiwar statements, starring Rudolph Valentino, with live piano accompaniment by Makia Matsumura on Sunday, 9/17.
Fremont
Fremont
Jalali’s Sundance standout, about a newly immigrated twentysomething from Afghanistan in the San Francisco Bay Area, has an exquisitely modulated tone all its own: somewhere between deadpan comedy and offhand sorrow. Screening 9/15–9/24.
Lost in Translation
Lost in Translation
On 9/16 and 9/30, see a special 35mm twentieth-anniversary screening of Sofia Coppola’s confident second film about an aging movie star (Bill Murray) and a newly married twenty-something (Scarlett Johansson in her breakout performance), who meet at a lofty hotel bar in Tokyo.
Janie Geiser Program 3: Double Vision
Janie Geiser Program 3: Double Vision
This series includes eight films made between 2013 and 2018 that investigate the photographic image. Found thrift store images and rediscovered family photographs are forensically examined, reimagined, reframed, unmoored, and re-revealed in all of their documentary truth and fiction. With Janie Geiser in person!
House Party
House Party
A memorable snapshot of the era’s social and fashion trends, House Party is a jubilant celebration that also speaks to the importance of appreciating Black culture without ignoring widespread societal problems. The 9/16 screening will be copresented by Afrikan Poetry Theatre and followed by a panel discussion.
Fremont
Fremont
Jalali’s Sundance standout, about a newly immigrated twentysomething from Afghanistan in the San Francisco Bay Area, has an exquisitely modulated tone all its own: somewhere between deadpan comedy and offhand sorrow. Screening 9/15–9/24.
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.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
See one of cinema’s grandest and most powerful antiwar statements, starring Rudolph Valentino, with live piano accompaniment by Makia Matsumura on Sunday, 9/17.
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
See Rebecca Miller’s adaptation of her own novel about Pippa Lee (Wright), a loving mother of two grown children, and the wife of successful publisher Herb (Arkin), who’s 30 years her senior. Stay for a conversation with Miller.
House Party
House Party
A memorable snapshot of the era’s social and fashion trends, House Party is a jubilant celebration that also speaks to the importance of appreciating Black culture without ignoring widespread societal problems. The 9/16 screening will be copresented by Afrikan Poetry Theatre and followed by a panel discussion.
A Conversation with Rebecca Miller + Screenings
A Conversation with Rebecca Miller + Screenings
On 9.17, spend an afternoon with filmmaker Rebecca Miller, featuring a conversation moderated by David Schwartz.
She Came to Me
She Came to Me
A composer suffering from writer’s block rediscovers his passion after an adventurous one-night stand. A couple of gifted teenagers fight to prove to the parents that their young love is something that can last forever. A woman’s love arrives in the most unexpected places.