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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.”
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.
King: A Filmed Record… Montgomery to Memphis
King: A Filmed Record… Montgomery to Memphis
On Martin Luther King Day, see the classic, Oscar-nominated archival documentary that follows MLK's rise from regional activist to world-renowned leader of the Civil Rights movement.
Press Pause: Films by MoMI Staff Members
Press Pause: Films by MoMI Staff Members
Join us January 15 for a members-only screening of experimental films, documentary shorts, and music videos directed by Museum of the Moving Image staff members.
Reverse Shot Happy Hour: Best of 2023
Reverse Shot Happy Hour: Best of 2023
Join Reverse Shot editors and critics for a live online event announcing Reverse Shot's Best of 2023 film list.
The Peasants
The Peasants
The Peasants was shot in live-action before being turned into painted animation by a group of 100+ painters over a period of more than two years.
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.
Tron
Tron
This groundbreaking sci-fi about a rebel computer programmer (Jeff Bridges) transported an arcade game will be introduced by artist David Levine on Friday, 1/19.
Pacifiction
Pacifiction
A mesmerizing fever dream of a movie, this compelling and moody masterpiece from Catalan filmmaker Alberto Serra is both drenched in atmosphere and provocative in its wide-ranging ideas about the legacies of the colonialist European mindset.
eXistenZ
eXistenZ
Cronenberg's wild, twisted sci-fi adventure set in the near future follows visionary game developer Allegra Geller (Leigh) whose virtual reality experience can be accessed through direct bodily contact with fleshy controllers.
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Hayao Miyazaki's pivotal early feature was released 40 years ago in Japan. See it 1/20 and 1/21.
Digital Animation: Marvels of Media Workshop
Digital Animation: Marvels of Media Workshop
Instructed by artist Pepita Sandwich, this workshop focuses on creating a digital animation short that involves the movement of a shape or object. Recommended for ages 15 and up.
Scarlet
Scarlet
Incorporating elements of mythic fairy tale, pastoral romance, documentary, and even musical, Scarlet is a singular work of magic realism.
The Boy and the Heron
The Boy and the Heron
The legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki returns after a decade’s hiatus with an extraordinary and eccentric tale of a young boy entering an alternate realm of existence to help change his real world.
Unrest
Unrest
Swiss filmmaker Schäublin has created a film about time itself: what it means historically, emotionally, mechanically, set in the late 19th century Switzerland.
Return to Seoul
Return to Seoul
In the marvelous breakthrough from Cambodian-French director Davy Chou, Ji-Min Park stars as an impulsive French woman in her twenties named Freddie, vacationing in South Korea; while there she decides on a whim to try and locate the birth parents she never knew.
May December—with Production Designer Sam Lisenco in Person
May December—with Production Designer Sam Lisenco in Person
Todd Haynes uses a potentially sensational subject to make vivid inquiries into American culture, with its obsessions with celebrity and scandal, and the precarious foundation of family itself. Production designer Sam Lisenco to appear in person!
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Hayao Miyazaki's pivotal early feature was released 40 years ago in Japan. See it 1/20 and 1/21.
Youth (Spring)
Youth (Spring)
Wang Bing has been constructing epic documentary portraits of the economic condition of China throughout the volatile and transformative twenty-first century.
Asteroid City
Asteroid City
Anderson’s aesthetic control, rapturous beauty, and complex storytelling approach have never been more impressively wrought than in this wildly complex reimagination of the 1950s as a world of the mind.
Ferrari
Ferrari
Elegantly directed on location and classically constructed, Ferrari continues Mann’s ongoing project of depicting men in crisis and shows an important American cinematic artist working at the top of his powers.
A Thousand and One
A Thousand and One
The Grand Jury Prize winner at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival is a work of emotional complexity from one of the most exciting new American filmmakers in years.