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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.”
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.
Fiona Tan: Footsteps
Fiona Tan: Footsteps
In this video installation drawn exclusively from films made between 1896 and the late 1920s, Tan pairs mesmerizing moments of people working over a century ago—sewing fishing nets, harvesting wheat, collecting chicken eggs, sorting oysters—with missives from her Australia-based father, read aloud by Scottish actor Ian Henderson.
Housekeeping for Beginners
Housekeeping for Beginners
From acclaimed filmmaker Goran Stolevski (Of an Age) comes a story exploring the universal truths of family: the ones we’re born into and the ones we find for ourselves.
Marvels of Media Festival Opening Night
Marvels of Media Festival Opening Night
Our 3/28 opening night includes a reception; virtual reality showcase; and a selection of short films that explore the multitude of ways autistic people navigate dating and relationships.
The Red Shoes
The Red Shoes
Powell and Pressburger’s influential backstage drama masterpiece about a rising star ballerina consumed by perfectionism features an unforgettable extended fantasy ballet, and Oscar-winning art direction and musical score. Screens 3/23, 3/24, and 3/29.
Puppetry Workshop with WonderSpark Puppets
Puppetry Workshop with WonderSpark Puppets
This workshop invites autistic visitors and media-makers are invited to learn how to perform puppetry on screen. Participants will gain knowledge about theater and perform original stories and become more confident puppeteers.
Flying Lessons + Oreo
Flying Lessons + Oreo
This dramatic feature follows two estranged sisters forced together by their mother’s sudden death.
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Last Temptation of Christ
One of Scorsese’s supreme achievements brilliantly articulates the passion of its director’s ongoing cinematic project for depicting the complexities of faith and violence. Screens 3/29 and 3/30.
The Zone of Interest
The Zone of Interest
Glazer has made a film about the Holocaust unlike any other, using obliqueness and the abstraction of terror to speak to the ways in which we all shield our eyes from evil. Screens 3/29–4/6.
Magnificently Awesome Animations: Four Shorts
Magnificently Awesome Animations: Four Shorts
These four well-crafted animated shorts are perfect for kids of all ages, taking viewers into fantastical, vibrant worlds.
Bending Conventions: Six Shorts
Bending Conventions: Six Shorts
These inventive films offer innovative experimental film techniques, and unique storylines.
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Last Temptation of Christ
One of Scorsese’s supreme achievements brilliantly articulates the passion of its director’s ongoing cinematic project for depicting the complexities of faith and violence. Screens 3/29 and 3/30.
Collage Animation Workshop
Collage Animation Workshop
As part of Museum of the Moving Image’s Marvels of Media Festival and co-presented by Strokes of Genius, autistic visitors and media-makers are welcome to join us for the Collage Animation Workshop.
The Wedding Banquet
The Wedding Banquet
On 3/30 and 3/31, see the breakthrough film in America for Oscar-winning director Ang Lee, the moving, New York–set story of a gay Taiwanese immigrant who marries a woman from China, both to help her procure a green card and to convince his parents that he is straight.
Spirit Riser
Spirit Riser
Spirit Riser is a genre-bending fantasy with elements of horror, comedy, action, surrealism, and martial arts from rising New York City filmmaker Dylan Mars Greenberg, who will appear in person!
The Wedding Banquet
The Wedding Banquet
On 3/30 and 3/31, see the breakthrough film in America for Oscar-winning director Ang Lee, the moving, New York–set story of a gay Taiwanese immigrant who marries a woman from China, both to help her procure a green card and to convince his parents that he is straight.
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
A Tokyo office worker (Rinko Kikuchi) finds a battered VHS tape of a fictional film and becomes convinced the movie’s lost satchel of money is real is David Zellner's breakthrough comic mystery. Screening with filmmakers Nathan Zellner and David Zellner in person 3/31.
Sometimes a Great Notion
Sometimes a Great Notion
Paul Newman directed this sweeping saga set in the Pacific Northwest based on the celebrated novel by Ken Kesey about a hard-bitten Oregon lumber family that bucks their close-knit community to deliver a shipment of logs during a strike. Screening 3/31.
The Zone of Interest
The Zone of Interest
Glazer has made a film about the Holocaust unlike any other, using obliqueness and the abstraction of terror to speak to the ways in which we all shield our eyes from evil. Screens 3/29–4/6.
Sasquatch Sunset
Sasquatch Sunset
In the forests of North America, a family of Sasquatches—possibly the last of their enigmatic kind—embark on an absurdist, poignant journey over the course of one year. Screening 3/31 with directors Nathan and David Zellner in person!