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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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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.
Killers of the Flower Moon
Killers of the Flower Moon
Scorsese's film tracks the suspicious murders of members of the Osage Nation, who became some of the richest people in the world overnight after oil was discovered underneath their land. Followed by a Q&A with casting director Ellen Lewis and executive producer Marianne Bower in person.
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.
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.
Songs from the Second Floor
Songs from the Second Floor
Making a stunning return to feature filmmaking after a 25-year hiatus, Roy Andersson introduced what would become his signature style with this bleak and beautiful deadpan gem. Screening 12/15 and 12/30 as part of our Andersson retrospective.
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.
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.
Tomorrow’s Another Day
Tomorrow’s Another Day
This documentary by Johan Carlsson provides a candid view of Roy Andersson’s process, showing us exactly how Andersson constructs his unforgettable images.
Dark Waters
Dark Waters
Adopting the style of paranoid 1970s American thrillers, Todd Haynes and cinematographer Ed Lachman bring a bold, melancholy pallor to the true story of a corporate defense attorney, Rob Billot (Mark Ruffalo), who fought to expose the corruption of chemical manufacturing corporation DuPont.
You, the Living + World of Glory
You, the Living + World of Glory
It took nearly seven years to build the wildly elaborate sets, and to finance the second in Roy Andersson’s “human trilogy." Showing with Andersson's haunting 14-minute short. The 12/30 screening will be introduced by critic Imogen Sara Smith.
Stories in Motion: An Interactive Pop-Up Art Exhibit
Stories in Motion: An Interactive Pop-Up Art Exhibit
Join us for an evening of game-like, participatory, and interactive media projects that explore the boundaries of narrative and storytelling.
A Swedish Love Story
A Swedish Love Story
With a gentle humanism and low-key lyricism reminiscent of the films of the Czech New Wave, Andersson’s beautifully observed debut stars the wonderfully naturalistic Ann-Sofie Kylin and Rolf Sohlman.
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.
The White Game
The White Game
This remarkable cinema vérité documentary captures an important moment in the social turmoil and protests that swept Europe in the spring of 1968. The 12/17 screening will be introduced by Ambassador Andreas von Uexküll, Deputy Permanent Representative of Sweden to the United Nations.
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
A dour pair of traveling salesmen who sell plastic fangs and other novelty items are the main recurring characters in the mesmerizing finale to Roy Andersson’s “Being Human” trilogy, screening 12/17 and 12/31.
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.
Past Lives—with Director Celine Song and Editor Keith Fraase in Person
Past Lives—with Director Celine Song and Editor Keith Fraase in Person
The director and editor of the year's hit heartrending modern romance will join us on 12/17 for a screening and Q&A as part of our ongoing Art & Craft series.
About Endlessness + Something Happened
About Endlessness + Something Happened
About Endlessness is (ironically, for the title) the director’s shortest, most distilled film, with memorable images including a couple floating over a war-torn city. Preceded by a public-service short film about the AIDS crisis, made in Andersson’s signature style.