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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.
Reflected Forms: Story and Character in the Films of Todd Haynes
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.
Apolonia, Apolonia
Apolonia, Apolonia
Filmed over a 13-year period, this is an unpredictable, entertaining, occasionally jaw-dropping documentary in which filmmaker Lea Glob follows artist Apolonia Sokul as she makes her way in the art world, moves around the world, and navigates various relationships. Glob will appear in person.
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,
Early Works by Todd Haynes
Early Works by Todd Haynes
The Museum’s complete Todd Haynes retrospective kicks off December 1 with a special evening featuring the filmmaker himself, alongside a selection of his rarely screened early works, including The Suicide and Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud.
Dottie Gets Spanked and Other Films
Dottie Gets Spanked and Other Films
Inspired by his own childhood fixation on I Love Lucy, Todd Haynes created this poignant, marvelously transgressive short about a young boy in 1960s suburbia obsessed with a female sitcom star. Haynes will appear in person to present this and other early short films.
Puppetry on Screen: Marvels of Media Workshop
Puppetry on Screen: Marvels of Media Workshop
Instructed by puppeteer Brian Carson, this media workshop focuses on the making of a short video (from 30 seconds to one minute) that involves puppet characters talking or resolving a problem.
Poison
Poison
See Todd Haynes's Sundance-awarded breakthrough on 12/2, followed by a Q&A with Haynes and introduced by the co-founders and co-presidents of Zeitgeist Films.
Popeye
Popeye
This film has stood the test of time, and it is now regarded not only as one of Altman’s neglected gems but also as one of Robin Williams’s most brilliant screen performances.
May December—with Todd Haynes in Person
May December—with Todd Haynes in Person
See Todd Haynes’s brilliant latest film, a tricky and gripping dark comic creation starring Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore, with Haynes in person on 12/2! Tickets free for MoMI members.
Against the Tide
Against the Tide
A lyrical and beautifully observed portrait of a friendship tested by the strains of the modern world, Against the Tide depicts the struggles of Bombay fishermen Rakesh and Ganesh, inheritors of the great Koli knowledge system. With director Sarvnik Kaur in person on 12/2.
Safe
Safe
Haynes's will appear in person on 12/2 to introduce his visionary psychological horror story, which would ultimately be named the best film of the 1990s in a Village Voice critics poll and remains for many the defining film of his career.
Popeye
Popeye
This film has stood the test of time, and it is now regarded not only as one of Altman’s neglected gems but also as one of Robin Williams’s most brilliant screen performances.
Six by Sondheim
Six by Sondheim
In this delightfully creative compendium of musical numbers across Sondheim’s career, a trio of directors tackle highlights from six different shows in unexpected ways. In his segment, Haynes constructs a sultry and innovative update of Follies’ classic torch song “I’m Still Here." Free screening!
Far from Heaven
Far from Heaven
A magnificently mounted and beautifully acted film that both evokes and subverts the craftsmanship and artifice of Hollywood studio filmmaking, Far from Heaven was writer-director Todd Haynes’s most instantly critically acclaimed film.
Hurricane Season (Temporada de huracanes)
Hurricane Season (Temporada de huracanes)
Hurricane Season is a powerful and stunning film, with an impressive ensemble cast and impeccable cinematography by María Secco. Director Elisa Miller will appear in person.
Mayor
Mayor
One of the most insightful and entertaining documentaries of recent years, this political saga follows Musa Hadid, the Christian mayor of Ramallah, Palestine. On December 3, with director David Osit in person!
Carol
Carol
Todd Haynes’s astonishing 1950s-set film, one of the great cinematic love stories of the 21st century, screens in time for Christmas on December 22 and 23.