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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.”
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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
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.
Back Street
Back Street
The 8:00 p.m. Back Street screens as part of a double feature with Of Human Bondage (7:15 p.m.). Snubbed: Irene Dunne Dir. John M. Stahl. 1932, U.S. 93 mins. 4K DCP. With Irene Dunne, John Boles, George ...
Of Human Bondage
Of Human Bondage
Snubbed: Bette Davis Dir. John Cromwell. 1934, U.S. 83 mins. Digital projection. With Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, Frances Dee. Though it only took a portion of W. Somerset Maugham’s beloved 1915 best-selling novel, Cromwell’s vivid ...
Showing Up–With Kelly Reichardt
Showing Up–With Kelly Reichardt
American independent treasure Kelly Reichardt brings her unique brand of contemplative humanism to this observant portrait of artistic creation set in Portland, starring Michelle Williams and Hong Chau. Reichardt appears for a post-screening Q&A 1/26.
Back Street
Back Street
Snubbed: Irene Dunne Dir. John M. Stahl. 1932, U.S. 93 mins. 4K DCP. With Irene Dunne, John Boles, George Meeker, ZaSu Pitts, Jane Darwell. This formidable pre-Code tearjerker from melodrama titan Stahl has such a ...
Young Mr. Lincoln
Young Mr. Lincoln
Snubbed: Henry Fonda Dir. John Ford. 1939, U.S. 100 mins. DCP. With Henry Fonda, Alice Brady, Marjorie Weaver, Arleen Wheelan, Pauline Moore, Ward Bond. Among Oscar’s most inexplicable historical omissions is Fonda’s legendary performance as ...
De Humani Corporis Fabrica
De Humani Corporis Fabrica
This singular documentary invites viewers to witness flesh, viscera, and cavernous realms we may have never thought possible, allowing us to remain clinical yet awestruck by the wonders of our physicality. With Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor in person 1/27.
The Public Enemy
The Public Enemy
Snubbed: James Cagney Dir. William A. Wellman. 1931, U.S. 83 mins. 35mm. With James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods, Joan Blondell. Wellman’s quintessential pre-Code gangster melodrama, in which Tom Powers rises through the criminal underworld ...
His Girl Friday
His Girl Friday
Howard Hawks's brilliant, mile-a-minute classic screwball comedy His Girl Friday starring Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant screens on a 35mm print on 1/27 and 1/28.
Dry Ground Burning
Dry Ground Burning
The hallucinatory Dry Ground Burning boldly combines documentary footage and dramatized, performed narrative to create a portrait of a rough-and-raw alternate reality Brazil.
Young Mr. Lincoln
Young Mr. Lincoln
Snubbed: Henry Fonda Dir. John Ford. 1939, U.S. 100 mins. DCP. With Henry Fonda, Alice Brady, Marjorie Weaver, Arleen Wheelan, Pauline Moore, Ward Bond. Among Oscar’s most inexplicable historical omissions is Fonda’s legendary performance as ...
Our Body
Our Body
Over the course of many months of filming, and through interactions with a multitude of women, Claire Simon captures a spectrum of fears, desires, and struggles, and a representation of women at all stages of life. Simon's extraordinary documentary screens 1/28.
His Girl Friday
His Girl Friday
Howard Hawks's brilliant, mile-a-minute classic screwball comedy His Girl Friday starring Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant screens on a 35mm print on 1/27 and 1/28.
The Public Enemy
The Public Enemy
Snubbed: James Cagney Dir. William A. Wellman. 1931, U.S. 83 mins. 35mm. With James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods, Joan Blondell. Wellman’s quintessential pre-Code gangster melodrama, in which Tom Powers rises through the criminal underworld ...
Poor Things
Poor Things
Yorgos Lanthimos's bold, intricately designed fairy tale, recapitulating and reimagining the Frankenstein myth as a story of feminist awakening, screens 1/28.