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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.
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
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
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 >
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.
Dissolution
David Levine’s Dissolution is a jewel-box sculpture that conjures the past and future of the moving image. A 20-minute film played on a loop, it draws on the central conceit of iconic 1980s movies and TV shows such as Tron and Max Headroom: human characters who find themselves dematerialized and confined within the interior worlds of electronic devices.
A Hidden Life
A Hidden Life
Based on real events, Terrence Malick's film depicts the trials of Austrian martyr and conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter, who refused to take the Hitler Oath and suffered the consequences of staying true to his ideals.
The Tree of Life
The Tree of Life
Terrence Malick’s toweringly ambitious, time-spanning Palme d’Or-winner, a symphonic vision of a boy’s coming-of-age in suburban 1950s Texas, screens on 35mm on November 10 and 12.
Bringing Up Baby
Bringing Up Baby
On 11/4, 11/10, and 11/12, see Howard Hawks's unparalleled screwball classic featuring Katharine Hepburn (in her most truly madcap role) as a flighty heiress who, along with her leopard named “Baby,” reduces Cary Grant's paleontologist to a primitive state.
James and the Giant Peach
James and the Giant Peach
Producer Tim Burton and director Henry Selick employ both live action and stop-motion animation to realize Roald Dahl’s wondrous tale about a young orphan (Terry) who grows a magical, colossal iteration of the fuzzy fruit. Screens 11/4, 11/5, and 11/11.
35 Shots of Rum
35 Shots of Rum
Claire Denis created one of her warmest, most lived-in dramas in this superb and subtly drawn film, inspired by Yasujiro Ozu’s Late Spring in its evocation of the rich, complex emotions experienced by a father and daughter as he quietly learns to accept that she’s growing up
Matilda
Matilda
In a simpatico union of two devious minds, director Danny DeVito adapts Roald Dahl’s bestseller about a child gifted with telekinesis.
Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation: Program One
Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation: Program One
The Eyeworks Festival is an annual screening series focusing on experimental animation presented by Pioneer Works. This year, Museum of the Moving Image hosts the New York presentation of the 2023 program on November 11.
Everyone Else
Everyone Else
Maren Ade's microscopic look at a relationship in crisis, or perhaps one that might already have passed the point of no return.
Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation: Program Two
Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation: Program Two
The Eyeworks Festival is an annual screening series focusing on experimental animation presented by Pioneer Works. This year, Museum of the Moving Image hosts the New York presentation of the 2023 program on November 11.
Matilda
Matilda
In a simpatico union of two devious minds, director Danny DeVito adapts Roald Dahl’s bestseller about a child gifted with telekinesis.
A Hidden Life
A Hidden Life
Based on real events, Terrence Malick's film depicts the trials of Austrian martyr and conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter, who refused to take the Hitler Oath and suffered the consequences of staying true to his ideals.
Bringing Up Baby
Bringing Up Baby
On 11/4, 11/10, and 11/12, see Howard Hawks's unparalleled screwball classic featuring Katharine Hepburn (in her most truly madcap role) as a flighty heiress who, along with her leopard named “Baby,” reduces Cary Grant's paleontologist to a primitive state.
The Tree of Life
The Tree of Life
Terrence Malick’s toweringly ambitious, time-spanning Palme d’Or-winner, a symphonic vision of a boy’s coming-of-age in suburban 1950s Texas, screens on 35mm on November 10 and 12.