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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.
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.
Horrible Sites: Makeup and Production Design for The Exorcist
Horrible Sites: Makeup and Production Design for The Exorcist
With material drawn from MoMI’s permanent collection, this exhibit explores the film’s production and makeup design, detailing how a stylish townhouse in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., and an innocent young girl were transformed into sites of horror.
Mr. Yellow Sweatshirt
Mr. Yellow Sweatshirt
Shot in the Roosevelt Ave/Jackson Heights station, this installation video captures the tide of New Yorkers streaming through an entrance to the subway system in what the filmmakers refer to as a “collective ballet.”
GLOBAL MODE >
GLOBAL MODE >
Eva Davidova’s participatory installation playfully incorporates both ancient myth and contemporary reality, highlighting the theme of interdependent responsibility in the wake of ecological disaster.
The Witches
The Witches
A singular collaboration between vanguard filmmaker Nicolas Roeg and visionary artist Jim Henson, The Witches adapts one of Roald Dahl’s most frightful books for children with phantasmagoric gusto.
Lewis Klahr Program 1
Lewis Klahr Program 1
This first of three selections of films from the first half of experimental film legend Lewis Klahr’s career, screening 10/20, features some of his best-known titles made between 1987 and 2004. With Lewis Klahr in person!
Ghosts of Mars
Ghosts of Mars
John Carpenter’s sci-fi horror western has grown in stature as a cult favorite since its release, and features Ice Cube in the kind of unapologetically tough but ultimately fair and kind-hearted role he was made for.
Lewis Klahr Program 2: The Blue Rose of Forgetfulness
Lewis Klahr Program 2: The Blue Rose of Forgetfulness
Lewis Klahr's latest feature-length series of collage films is a compilation of six films created between 2015 and 2021. Lewis Klahr in person on 10/20.
The Witches
The Witches
A singular collaboration between vanguard filmmaker Nicolas Roeg and visionary artist Jim Henson, The Witches adapts one of Roald Dahl’s most frightful books for children with phantasmagoric gusto.
Ghosts of Mars
Ghosts of Mars
John Carpenter’s sci-fi horror western has grown in stature as a cult favorite since its release, and features Ice Cube in the kind of unapologetically tough but ultimately fair and kind-hearted role he was made for.
Lewis Klahr Program 3
Lewis Klahr Program 3
The films in this program explore the surreal, while reflecting on the intersection of personal identity and pop culture giving way to the complex landscapes of the human condition.
Inside Llewyn Davis
Inside Llewyn Davis
The Coen brothers’ acerbic yet profoundly felt character study of a singer-songwriter (Oscar Isaac) will be introduced by critic Adam Nayman, author of The Coen Brothers: This Book Really Ties the Films Together, on 10/15.
Kokomo City + Alpha Kings
Kokomo City + Alpha Kings
D. Smith's Sundance NEXT Innovator Award winner will be preceded by the short Alpha Kings with filmmakers Faye Tsakas and Enrique Pedráza-Botero in person
The Village
The Village
M. Night Shyamalan's most conceptually complex, intricately patterned film, a Bush-era political allegory that evokes the literature of Hawthorne and Irving in its deeply American fears of the unknown, screens on 35mm 10/21 and 10/28.
MoMI Members Halloween
MoMI Members Halloween
With spooky season in full swing, join MoMI for a members-only Halloween event on 10/21, featuring a performance by drag queen Avant Garbage, a DJ, refreshments provided by QNSY cocktails and local restaurants, a costume contest, themed gallery tours, trivia, and more.
Unfriended: Dark Web
Unfriended: Dark Web
The best and scariest of the new "desktop horror" subgenre of films is Unfriended: Dark Web, in which a young man makes the very bad mistake of bringing home a discarded laptop from a coffee house
Halloween with The Muppet Show
Halloween with The Muppet Show
As we approach Halloween, we've selected three season-appropriate episodes of The Muppet Show, featuring Alan Arkin, Twiggy, and Vincent Price.
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
Jane Schoenbrun appears in person Sunday, October 22, at 2:30 p.m. with her feature debut, which uses the textures and trappings of the horror genre to descend into a striking depiction of a particularly 21st-century loneliness.
I Woke Up with a Dream
I Woke Up with a Dream
A favorite at the Berlin Film Festival, the third feature by Argentine writer-director Pablo Solarz is an endearing personal coming-of-age tale of self-realization.
Two by Safi Faye
Two by Safi Faye
A filmmaker of singular vision and ingenuity, Safi Faye fearlessly experimented with genre and form in order to honor the people from her home country of Senegal, particularly the working class and women from rural regions. See two of her films on 10/22.
Pulse
Pulse
Kurosawa’s master class in alienated dread spawned a U.S. remake, but the original remains the best of the internet-horror subgenre and one of the most terrifying movies ever made.