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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.
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.”
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.
Auriea Harvey: My Veins Are the Wires, My Body Is Your Keyboard
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.
Videofreak
Videofreak
Allen Riley's Videofreak reimagines the arcade game experience by emphasizing the art of video manipulation over traditional gameplay elements like scorekeeping and end goals.
Tide Predictor
Tide Predictor
Tide Predictor is LoVid’s first code-driven generative artwork, a departure from a majority of their catalog, which centers experimentation with actual analog video. It will be displayed on the Museum's Schlosser Media Wall in the lobby.
Spaceman
Spaceman
Adam Sandler plays an astronaut who realizes that the marriage he left behind on Earth might not be waiting for him when he returns. Free screening, courtesy of Netflix. With director Johan Renck in person!
3 Women
3 Women
Snubbed: Shelley Duvall Dir. Robert Altman. 1977, U.S. 124 mins. DCP. With Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Janice Rule. Altman’s dreamlike study of down-and-out women existing in a liminal state between reality and fantasy in a ...
The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence
Scorsese’s sumptuous cinematic rendering of Edith Wharton’s novel about the social mores of turn-of-the-century New York, starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Daniel Day-Lewis, screens March 1 and 3.
Members-only Oscars Trivia
Members-only Oscars Trivia
Join Movie Trivia NYC at MoMI for an evening of Oscars trivia, featuring a guest round from Michael Koresky.
Stop Making Sense: 40th Anniversary Re-Release
Stop Making Sense: 40th Anniversary Re-Release
Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense is considered by many critics the greatest concert film of all time.
Access Mornings at MoMI
Access Mornings at MoMI
Offered the first Saturday of each month (June 2023–May 2024), free Access Mornings at MoMI are dedicated to families with children on the autism spectrum and give families an exclusive opportunity to explore exhibitions and ...
3 Women
3 Women
Snubbed: Shelley Duvall Dir. Robert Altman. 1977, U.S. 124 mins. DCP. With Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Janice Rule. Altman’s dreamlike study of down-and-out women existing in a liminal state between reality and fantasy in a ...
World on a Wire
World on a Wire
Fassbinder's vision of the future in 1970s aesthetics follows a cybernetics engineer Fred Stiller who is employed by Simulacron, a program that creates simulations of people who don’t know they are not flesh-and-blood in order to predict social, economic, and political events.
The House of Mirth
The House of Mirth
Terence Davies’s magnificent adaptation of Edith Wharton’s 1905 novel is a sumptuous triumph all around, yet its beating, battered heart belongs to Gillian Anderson, who miraculously evokes tragic heroine Lily Bart. Encore screening 3/22 on 35mm.
THX 1138
THX 1138
George Lucas made his astonishing feature debut with this dystopian science-fiction film, screening 3/2.
Arrival
Arrival
One of Denis Villeneuve’s most fully realized works, Arrival stars a brilliant Amy Adams, who helps provide the small-scale humanity that is elegantly set against its wide sci-fi canvas. Screening 3/2 and 3/3.
Arrival
Arrival
One of Denis Villeneuve’s most fully realized works, Arrival stars a brilliant Amy Adams, who helps provide the small-scale humanity that is elegantly set against its wide sci-fi canvas. Screening 3/2 and 3/3.
Welcome to Ramadan
Welcome to Ramadan
Join us for a community event from 1:00–5:00 p.m. on March 3, organized by Shireen Soliman and MoMI’s Neighborhood Council. Immerse yourself in the joyful spirit of Ramadan as we celebrate with a day of fun programming for all ages.
The Breadwinner
The Breadwinner
This Oscar-nominated film is based on Deborah Ellis’s novel about a young girl, Parvana, growing up under Taliban's Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan as the War on Terror begins. Followed by a panel discussion about representation of Muslims and Ramadan in film and media.
The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence
Scorsese’s sumptuous cinematic rendering of Edith Wharton’s novel about the social mores of turn-of-the-century New York, starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Daniel Day-Lewis, screens March 1 and 3.
Stop Making Sense: 40th Anniversary Re-Release
Stop Making Sense: 40th Anniversary Re-Release
Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense is considered by many critics the greatest concert film of all time.
The House of Mirth
The House of Mirth
Terence Davies’s magnificent adaptation of Edith Wharton’s 1905 novel is a sumptuous triumph all around, yet its beating, battered heart belongs to Gillian Anderson, who miraculously evokes tragic heroine Lily Bart. Encore screening 3/22 on 35mm.