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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.”
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.
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.
2023 Moving Image Awards Honoring Todd Haynes
2023 Moving Image Awards Honoring Todd Haynes
Celebrate the career of one of the most boundlessly creative and surprising filmmakers of the past forty years at MoMI's annual Winter Moving Image Awards. Learn more about ticket pricing and options.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Director Jeff Rowe in person for a special screening of the hit animated sequel, in which the Turtle brothers set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers through heroic acts.
Cassandro
Cassandro
Gael García Bernal will appear in person on 12/6 for this screening of his new film, about a gay amateur wrestler from El Paso named Saúl Armendáriz rises to international stardom after he creates the character Cassandro, the “Liberace of Lucha Libre.”
Building Asteroid City
Building Asteroid City
In this special screening and discussion on Thursday 12/7, production designer Adam Stockhausen will give an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at how Wes Anderson's dazzling Asteroid City was created.
Wonderstruck
Wonderstruck
A pair of deeply emotional stories of obsession from different time periods ultimately converge in Todd Haynes’s wondrous adaptation of Brian Selznick’s beautifully conceived and illustrated young adult novel, screening 12/8 and 12/9.
The Matrix + Operator
The Matrix + Operator
Artist David Levine introduces the Wachowskis' epochal cyberpunk film, along with a short by Hannah Whitaker that frames women in scenes that make them seem both human and machine-like.
A Still Small Voice
A Still Small Voice
Director Luke Lorentzen spends a year inside New York’s Mount Sinai hospital following Mati, a chaplain-in-training who’s completing a residency providing spiritual care to people confronting profound life changes. Lorentzen appears in person 12/8.
Our Hospitality
Our Hospitality
Buster Keaton's lovingly detailed parody of the legendary feud between the Hatfields of West Virginia and McCoys of Kentucky is filled with perfectly timed sight gags that culminate in one of Keaton’s literally death-defying set pieces. Screening 12/9 and 12/16.
Wonderstruck
Wonderstruck
A pair of deeply emotional stories of obsession from different time periods ultimately converge in Todd Haynes’s wondrous adaptation of Brian Selznick’s beautifully conceived and illustrated young adult novel, screening 12/8 and 12/9.
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.
The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground
Todd Haynes’s kaleidoscopic portrait of the seminal sixties rock group The Velvet Underground explodes the music documentary form. Screens 12/9 and 12/17.
Celebrating Manfred Kirchheimer
Celebrating Manfred Kirchheimer
This screening of works from legendary documentarian Manfred Kirchheimer on 12/9, including two world premieres, honors the diverse and remarkable career of one New York City's most invaluable cinematic chroniclers. With Kirchheimer in person!
Velvet Goldmine
Velvet Goldmine
Haynes’s spectacular and ambitious musical, screening 12/9 and 12/17, charts the rise of glam rock and the star who was the movement’s brightest flame, functioning as both history and dream.
In the Rearview
In the Rearview
An authentic, intimate observation of war as it unfolds, In the Rearview follows multiple generations of Ukrainian civilians as they abruptly abandon their homes and rely on the help of the director volunteer aid van to escape the life-threatening conflict. With director Maciek Hamela in person 12/9.
The Philadelphia Story
The Philadelphia Story
Three of Hollywood’s greatest stars—Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, and James Stewart—teamed up in this enduring, Oscar-winning classic that revolves around a high society divorcée whose second wedding is disrupted by her first husband and a cynical tabloid reporter. Screening 12/15 and 12/16.
Mildred Pierce
Mildred Pierce
Created as a five-part miniseries for HBO, Haynes's thrilling adaptation of James M. Cain’s 1941 novel Mildred Pierce is cinematic event. Marathon screening free with Museum admission! Screens 12/10.
Maria by Callas: In Her Own Words
Maria by Callas: In Her Own Words
On 12/10, see the enthralling documentary that tells the story of legendary Greek-American opera singer Maria Callas presented in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Maria Callas.
I’m Not There
I’m Not There
Haynes’s majestic and freewheeling meditation on the different identities of Bob Dylan is a cinematic tour de force that features six different actors as Dylan. Screening 12/10 and 12/29.