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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.
MoMI x Art Blocks: Generative Moving Image ft. LoVid
MoMI x Art Blocks: Generative Moving Image ft. LoVid
MoMI is partnering with Art Blocks, an online platform for code-based generative art, to host their exclusive anchor event during NFT.NYC week, featuring an interactive analog video synthesis demonstration by LoVid.
Philip K. Dick Festival Opening Night: International Sci-Fi Film Shorts
Philip K. Dick Festival Opening Night: International Sci-Fi Film Shorts
Followed by a Q&A with directors and producers and special guest Matthew Modine Program includes: Burner Face Dir. John Gauntt. 2023, 2 mins. U.S. Composed by a team of three creatives + Midjourney AI, this ...
Best of Philip K. Dick Sci-Fi Film Shorts
Best of Philip K. Dick Sci-Fi Film Shorts
Followed by a Q&A with directors and producers Program includes: Homologies Dir. Bryerly Long. 2023, 12 mins. U.S. In the near future, parents who have paid to genetically enhance their children wonder if they have ...
Classic Warner Bros. Cartoons
Classic Warner Bros. Cartoons
This selection of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies classics directed by Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Art Davis, and Bob Clampett spans the breadth of Warner Bros. Cartoons’ output during the post-WWII years. Screening 4/5, 4/7, and 4/19.
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 ...
The Jim Henson Hour: Dog City / The Song of the Cloud Forest—35th Anniversary
The Jim Henson Hour: Dog City / The Song of the Cloud Forest—35th Anniversary
We'll celebrate the 35th anniversary of The Jim Henson Hour with a screening of two programs from the series directed by Jim Henson himself. Introduced by Jim Henson Legacy President Craig Shemin on April 6 and 7.
ReelAbilities Film Festival: La Lucha
ReelAbilities Film Festival: La Lucha
Presented as part of the 16th Annual ReelAbilities Film Festival: New York on April 6, this powerful documentary follows Feliza, Mareele, Rose Mery, and Miguel as they spearhead a movement to advocate for the rights of people with disabilities.
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.
Documentary and Short Film Science Fiction Block
Documentary and Short Film Science Fiction Block
Followed by a Q&A with directors and producers and special guest star Arnold Chun (Man in the High Castle) Program includes: Chaska Dir. Liz Guarraccino. 2024, 2 mins. U.S. How would you feel if you ...
Creep Box
Creep Box
Followed by a Q&A with director Patrick Biesemans and producer Noah Lang. Dir. Patrick Biesemans, 2023, US, 95 mins. A scientist uses groundbreaking technology to communicate with the deceased. Once he is through the looking ...
The Jim Henson Hour: Dog City / The Song of the Cloud Forest—35th Anniversary
The Jim Henson Hour: Dog City / The Song of the Cloud Forest—35th Anniversary
We'll celebrate the 35th anniversary of The Jim Henson Hour with a screening of two programs from the series directed by Jim Henson himself. Introduced by Jim Henson Legacy President Craig Shemin on April 6 and 7.
Humanity Prevails: Sci-Fi Film Shorts
Humanity Prevails: Sci-Fi Film Shorts
Followed by a Q&A with directors and producers Program includes: Suppressus Dir. Grant Jones. 2022,19 mins. U.S. Two neuroscientists work to develop a device that regenerates memories blocked out by dissociative amnesia. Reverie Dir. Kelli ...
Classic Warner Bros. Cartoons
Classic Warner Bros. Cartoons
This selection of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies classics directed by Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Art Davis, and Bob Clampett spans the breadth of Warner Bros. Cartoons’ output during the post-WWII years. Screening 4/5, 4/7, and 4/19.
Quantum Suicide
Quantum Suicide
Followed by a Q&A with director Gerrit Van Woudenberg Dir. Gerrit Van Woudenberg. 2023, 87 mins. Canada. A reclusive physicist builds a particle accelerator in his garage and embarks on a quest to understand the ...
Henry Fool
Henry Fool
Hal Hartley’s rowdy, hilarious literary saga about a depraved wanderer who inspires a shy sanitation worker to write a book-length poem is an unlikely ode to bohemian life. Screening 4/7.
Alone Together
Alone Together
Followed by a Q&A with director William Kresch and producer Eric Reitz Dir. William Kresch. 2023, 94 mins. U.S. After fleeing their pandemic-ravaged city for the safety of a remote family cabin, a physically and ...