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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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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.
Wallace & Gromit Shorts
Wallace & Gromit Shorts
During the holiday week between Christmas and New Year's Eve, we're showing the beloved trio of claymation shorts from Aardman Animations that introduced the world to the clueless inventor Wallace and his smart, loyal dog, Gromit.
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
Nolan’s surprise behemoth is the rare blockbuster devoted to psychological warfare and the weight of history.
Wallace & Gromit Shorts
Wallace & Gromit Shorts
During the holiday week between Christmas and New Year's Eve, we're showing the beloved trio of claymation shorts from Aardman Animations that introduced the world to the clueless inventor Wallace and his smart, loyal dog, Gromit.
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
Nolan’s surprise behemoth is the rare blockbuster devoted to psychological warfare and the weight of history.
Wallace & Gromit Shorts
Wallace & Gromit Shorts
During the holiday week between Christmas and New Year's Eve, we're showing the beloved trio of claymation shorts from Aardman Animations that introduced the world to the clueless inventor Wallace and his smart, loyal dog, Gromit.
Oppenheimer in 70mm
Oppenheimer in 70mm
Christopher Nolan’s surprise box-office behemoth starring Cillian Murphy, the rare blockbuster devoted to psychological warfare and the weight of history, will be presented in 70mm.
Wallace & Gromit Shorts
Wallace & Gromit Shorts
During the holiday week between Christmas and New Year's Eve, we're showing the beloved trio of claymation shorts from Aardman Animations that introduced the world to the clueless inventor Wallace and his smart, loyal dog, Gromit.
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.
Oppenheimer in 70mm
Oppenheimer in 70mm
Christopher Nolan’s surprise box-office behemoth starring Cillian Murphy, the rare blockbuster devoted to psychological warfare and the weight of history, will be presented in 70mm.
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.
Wallace & Gromit Shorts
Wallace & Gromit Shorts
During the holiday week between Christmas and New Year's Eve, we're showing the beloved trio of claymation shorts from Aardman Animations that introduced the world to the clueless inventor Wallace and his smart, loyal dog, Gromit.
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.
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.
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.
The Wicker Man
The Wicker Man
Police sergeant Neil Howie (Woodward) arrives at a seemingly quiet island village in search of a missing young woman in this seminal work of folk horror.
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.
Wallace & Gromit Shorts
Wallace & Gromit Shorts
During the holiday week between Christmas and New Year's Eve, we're showing the beloved trio of claymation shorts from Aardman Animations that introduced the world to the clueless inventor Wallace and his smart, loyal dog, Gromit.
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 Wicker Man
The Wicker Man
Police sergeant Neil Howie (Woodward) arrives at a seemingly quiet island village in search of a missing young woman in this seminal work of folk horror.
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.