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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.
Reflected Forms: Story and Character in the Films of Todd Haynes
On the occasion of Todd Haynes’s May December, MoMI presents an exhibit with materials from the archives of filmmaker Todd Haynes, now part of the Museum’s collection, offering a glimpse into his process of transforming historical and cultural referents into formally ambitious, richly emotional films.
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.
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!
Holiday
Holiday
Katharine Hepburn reteamed with George Cukor and reprised a role that had been a Broadway hit for her a decade earlier. The result was one of her most sophisticated and successful movies,
Feast of the Epiphany
Feast of the Epiphany
Directed by Michael Koresky, Jeff Reichert, and Farihah Zaman, Feast of the Epiphany is an uncommonly sensitive rumination on the ways people form and choose communities, collaborations, and support groups in the face of hardship, labor, and loss.
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.
Ernest & Celestine: A Trip to Gibberitia
Ernest & Celestine: A Trip to Gibberitia
Ten years after the original Ernest & Celestine film introduced the world to the unlikely friendship between a bear and a mouse, the sequel A Trip to Gibberitia takes the duo on a new adventure. Screening 11/25 (in French with English subtitles and 11/26 (in English).
Before Sunrise
Holiday
Holiday
Katharine Hepburn reteamed with George Cukor and reprised a role that had been a Broadway hit for her a decade earlier. The result was one of her most sophisticated and successful movies,
Before Sunset
Before Sunset
One of the greatest romantic films ever made, a brilliantly acted, consistently playful, at times wrenching portrait of lost time, missed chances, and the possibility of changing one’s destiny.
Before Midnight
Before Midnight
The third outing in the saga of Jesse and Céline, set in Greece in late summer, is a bold, intensely emotional conclusion to their story.
Ernest & Celestine: A Trip to Gibberitia
Ernest & Celestine: A Trip to Gibberitia
Ten years after the original Ernest & Celestine film introduced the world to the unlikely friendship between a bear and a mouse, the sequel A Trip to Gibberitia takes the duo on a new adventure. Screening 11/25 (in French with English subtitles and 11/26 (in English).
Before Sunrise
The Shadow of the Sun (La Sombra del Sol)
The Shadow of the Sun (La Sombra del Sol)
See Venezuela’s Oscar submission for Best International Feature: the story of Leo, a blue-collar worker who participates in a musical contest in the capital of Caracas to help solve his economic problems. With director Miguel Ángel Ferrer in person!
Before Sunset
Before Sunset
One of the greatest romantic films ever made, a brilliantly acted, consistently playful, at times wrenching portrait of lost time, missed chances, and the possibility of changing one’s destiny.
Joonam
Joonam
Named for a Farsi term of endearment, Joonam is a personal film that echoes common experiences of the Iranian diasporic community, and will speak to anyone affected by the dislocation of the immigration experience. Screening 11/26 with director Sierra Urich in conversation with Farihah Zaman.
Before Midnight
Before Midnight
The third outing in the saga of Jesse and Céline, set in Greece in late summer, is a bold, intensely emotional conclusion to their story.