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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.
The Holdovers
The Holdovers
Alexander Payne will appear in person with his acclaimed 1970s-set latest, a film of relatable melancholy and profoundly felt humanity, held together by a trio of superb actors, and destined to be a seasonal classic.
Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros
Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros
One of nonfiction legend Wiseman’s longest films is also his most delicious: a ruminative, satisfying peek into the workings of a three-star Michelin restaurant in rural France.
R.M.N.
R.M.N.
Cristian Mungiu adds another searing drama about feral humanity caught in the jaws of outmoded traditions, and the violent persistence of prejudice and superstition in the modern world.
Passages
Passages
The latest from celebrated filmmaker Ira Sachs is his sharpest and sexiest drama yet, exploring a Parisian love triangle between three beautiful bohemians. With Sachs in person!
Jim Henson: Tele-Visionary
Jim Henson: Tele-Visionary
We’ll celebrate the 20th anniversary of the start of our screenings, with a special presentation of our very first compilation program, a journey from Jim Henson’s first show, Sam and Friends, to The Muppet Show, featuring material you won’t see anywhere else, including early TV appearances, commercials, and more.
The Killer
The Killer
David Fincher deconstructs the myth of the movie hit man with sardonic relish in this teasingly self-reflexive tour de force.
The Eternal Memory
The Eternal Memory
The latest film by Academy Award–nominated filmmaker Maite Alberdi witnesses the loving partnership of Augusto and Paulina, two public figures in their native Chile who’ve decided not to retreat into privacy when Augusto is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. With director Alberdi in person.
Killers of the Flower Moon
Killers of the Flower Moon
Killers of the Flower Moon is a staggering, summative tale of American violence that finds Martin Scorsese at the height of his storytelling powers. On 1/13, the screening is followed by a Followed by a Q&A with editor Thelma Schoonmaker, executive producer Marianne Bower, and casting director Ellen Lewis.
Nothing Lasts Forever
Nothing Lasts Forever
With director Jason Kohn in person on 1/13! The latest narratively expansive, big-screen documentary from nonfiction virtuoso Kohn takes on the international, centuries-old, so-called “precious diamond” industrial complex.
Jim Henson: Tele-Visionary
Jim Henson: Tele-Visionary
We’ll celebrate the 20th anniversary of the start of our screenings, with a special presentation of our very first compilation program, a journey from Jim Henson’s first show, Sam and Friends, to The Muppet Show, featuring material you won’t see anywhere else, including early TV appearances, commercials, and more.
Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros
Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros
One of nonfiction legend Wiseman’s longest films is also his most delicious: a ruminative, satisfying peek into the workings of a three-star Michelin restaurant in rural France.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Family Day
Martin Luther King, Jr. Family Day
Join us Sunday, January 14, from 2 to 5 p.m., in celebrating the birthday of civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with a talk, tours, media-making activities, and more.
Listen
Listen
Financial problems force a 16-year-old girl who is deaf to leave her progressive Athens school and return to the island where her father lives with his second wife and her son. Once there, she discovers that she must contend with the prejudice and intolerance of her peers and neighbors.
The Taste of Things
The Taste of Things
An epicurean feast for the senses set in late nineteenth century that’s also a profoundly moving film about how we create meaning and sustain happiness, The Taste of Things, starring Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel was the deserved winner of the Best Director prize for Tran Anh Hung at the Cannes Film Festival.