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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.
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.”
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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
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.
Matilda
Matilda
In a simpatico union of two devious minds, director Danny DeVito adapts Roald Dahl’s bestseller about a child gifted with telekinesis.
Carlito’s Way
Carlito’s Way
See De Palma’s astonishingly well-crafted gangster tale, a kinetic reteaming of the director and star of Scarface, on 11/17 and 11/19.
Joshua Gen Solondz: We Don’t Talk Like We Used To
Joshua Gen Solondz: We Don’t Talk Like We Used To
This program presents Solondz’s latest film, the sprawling, spreading We Don’t Talk Like We Used To alongside a set of personally selected works by the artist’s friends, influences, and teachers. Solondz will appear in person.
Manakamana
Manakamana
Composed of eleven long hypnotic shots, this transfixing ethnographic documentary follows various pilgrims and tourists as they travel to and from a Nepalese temple via a cable car suspended high over a mountain jungle.
Don’t Eat the Pictures
Don’t Eat the Pictures
Shot on-site at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and made in collaboration with the museum’s own office of film and television, this Sesame Street special was nominated for a primetime Emmy and won France’s 1984 Prix Jeunesse/International. Screening 11/18, 11/19. and 11/24.
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
This inspired and intimate portrait of a place and its people witnesses the lives of Daniel Collins and Quincy Bryant, two young African American men from rural Hale County, Alabama, over the course of five years.
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
The Wise Kids
The Wise Kids
The film that marked the arrival of one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary American cinema, The Wise Kids is a poignant coming-of-age drama about young people in the Bible Belt struggling with growing up and growing apart. With director Stephen Cone in person on 11/18!
Princess Cyd
Princess Cyd
Director Stephen Cone’s subtle and deeply felt film is one of the great recent coming-of-age movies. With Cone in person on 11/18!
They Live
They Live
A wanderer named Nada stumbles upon a pair of sunglasses that reveals the horrifying true nature of the world in this thrilling sci-fi action cult classic from director John Carpenter.
Don’t Eat the Pictures
Don’t Eat the Pictures
Shot on-site at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and made in collaboration with the museum’s own office of film and television, this Sesame Street special was nominated for a primetime Emmy and won France’s 1984 Prix Jeunesse/International. Screening 11/18, 11/19. and 11/24.
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
This inspired and intimate portrait of a place and its people witnesses the lives of Daniel Collins and Quincy Bryant, two young African American men from rural Hale County, Alabama, over the course of five years.
Black Stone
Black Stone
An overprotective mother engages a film crew working on a documentary about absentee civil servants, mistakenly believing they can help find her missing civil servant son.
Manakamana
Manakamana
Composed of eleven long hypnotic shots, this transfixing ethnographic documentary follows various pilgrims and tourists as they travel to and from a Nepalese temple via a cable car suspended high over a mountain jungle.
Carlito’s Way
Carlito’s Way
See De Palma’s astonishingly well-crafted gangster tale, a kinetic reteaming of the director and star of Scarface, on 11/17 and 11/19.
Macario
Macario
Mexico Now pays homage to renowned TV, theater, and film actor Ignacio López Tarso with a screening of the supernatural drama that launched the actor to international fame and was the first Mexican work to be nominated for an Oscar. With author Susana López Aranda (López Tarso’s daughter) in person.