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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.
Auriea Harvey: My Veins Are the Wires, My Body Is Your Keyboard
The first major survey of the pioneering net-artist and sculptor Auriea Harvey features more than 40 of Harvey’s works from her career spanning nearly four decades. Extended through December 1, 2024!
The Maltese Falcon
The Maltese Falcon
Snubbed: Humphrey Bogart Dir. John Huston. 1941, U.S. 101 mins. 4K DCP. With Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Gladys George. Huston’s improbably accomplished first film, adapted from the novel by Dashiell Hammett, ...
I’m in!
I’m in!
Come hear artist David Levine, whose Dissolution is on display in our Amphitheater Gallery, talk with film critic Danielle Burgos and Curator of Science & Technology Sonia Epstein. Followed by a screening of 1992’s cyber-horror meltdown The Lawnmower Man.
Scarface
Scarface
Snubbed: Al Pacino Dir. Brian De Palma. 1983, U.S. 180 mins. 4K DCP. With Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer, F. Murray Abraham, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Loggia. Pacino’s performance in Scarface has since become ...
The Lawnmower Man
The Lawnmower Man
The film gathered a strong cult following for its absolute weirdness and groundbreaking, if dated, visual effects, which include a full CGI human avatar, a cybersex scene, and depictions of a virtual reality world that influenced the look of future productions.
Strangers on a Train
Strangers on a Train
Snubbed: Robert Walker Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. 1951, U.S. 101 mins. DCP. With Robert Walker, Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Pat Hitchcock, Leo G. Carroll. When wealthy Bruno Antony (Walker) meets handsome tennis star Guy Haines (Granger) ...
The Emperor Jones
The Emperor Jones
Paul Robeson's most iconic film, the big-screen adaptation of Eugene O’Neill’s play, was shot at the Astoria Studios. See the 35mm print from the Library of Congress on 2/3 and 2/4.
Psycho
Psycho
Snubbed: Anthony Perkins Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. 1960, U.S. 109 mins. 4K DCP. With Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam. Hitchcock’s epochal film fragmented and reconstituted the horror genre forever after, thrilling ...
Winter Dreams of Hope: Film Screening and Concert
Winter Dreams of Hope: Film Screening and Concert
Join us for an afternoon of film, music, and refreshments presented by community partner Emerald Isle Immigration Center, in collaboration with Access Health NYC, NAIF Art Studio, and NYC Care, to embrace hope in the midst of winter.
Scarface
Scarface
Snubbed: Al Pacino Dir. Brian De Palma. 1983, U.S. 180 mins. 4K DCP. With Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer, F. Murray Abraham, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Loggia. Pacino’s performance in Scarface has since become ...
All Jacked Up and Full of Worms
All Jacked Up and Full of Worms
Two strangers fall in love while consuming hallucinogenic worms together. Their psychotic bender takes them on a downward spiral through the back alleys of Chicago and into the primordial ooze. With writer-director Alex Phillips in person!
Six Degrees of Separation—with Production Designer Patrizia von Brandenstein
Six Degrees of Separation—with Production Designer Patrizia von Brandenstein
One of the most revered production designers in film, will discuss her remarkable career on 2/4 following a screening of a personal favorite, Six Degrees of Separation, based on John Guare’s play about a Manhattan socialite and a seductive con artist.
The Maltese Falcon
The Maltese Falcon
Snubbed: Humphrey Bogart Dir. John Huston. 1941, U.S. 101 mins. 4K DCP. With Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Gladys George. Huston’s improbably accomplished first film, adapted from the novel by Dashiell Hammett, ...
The Emperor Jones
The Emperor Jones
Paul Robeson's most iconic film, the big-screen adaptation of Eugene O’Neill’s play, was shot at the Astoria Studios. See the 35mm print from the Library of Congress on 2/3 and 2/4.
Strangers on a Train
Strangers on a Train
Snubbed: Robert Walker Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. 1951, U.S. 101 mins. DCP. With Robert Walker, Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Pat Hitchcock, Leo G. Carroll. When wealthy Bruno Antony (Walker) meets handsome tennis star Guy Haines (Granger) ...
Bad Press
Bad Press
In 2018, the Muscogee Nation, one of the only Native American tribes to have established its own free press, suffered a grievous setback to its civil liberties. This documentary will be followed by a discussion with director Joe Peeler.
Psycho
Psycho
Snubbed: Anthony Perkins Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. 1960, U.S. 109 mins. 4K DCP. With Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam. Hitchcock’s epochal film fragmented and reconstituted the horror genre forever after, thrilling ...