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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.
14th Orphan Film Symposium
14th Orphan Film Symposium
This edition of the international gathering showcasing orphan films (neglected audiovisual media) will respond to the theme(s) of work and/or play, broadly considered.
Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tours
Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tours
Join us for a special guided tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition! The tour costs $5.00 per visitor (on top of admission ticket).
3D Printing Workshop
3D Printing Workshop
Museum of the Moving Image is teaming up with NYU-ITP to bring you a 3D printing workshop. This session is open to teens and adults alike.
The Abyss: Special Edition
The Abyss: Special Edition
James Cameron has re-released his beloved underwater sci-fi adventure in a newly restored, remastered version of the acclaimed extended director’s cut screens 5/3 and 5/5.
New York Arab Festival 2024 Shorts Program
New York Arab Festival 2024 Shorts Program
From magical realism to sharp critiques of the present, these short films invite us into the alluring world of contemporary Arab cinema, an industry as diverse as the 22 countries that make up the Arab world.
Carter Burwell on Fargo
Carter Burwell on Fargo
The audacious blend of Midwestern understatement and violent mayhem in Joel and Ethan Coen's Fargo is perfectly captured by Carter Burwell’s lean but unforgettable score. On 4/14, the Oscar-nominated composer will appear in person to discuss his score and his career.
Q
Q
This documentary depicts a secretive matriarchal religious order’s insidious influence on three generations of women in the Chehab family in Lebanon. A Q&A with producer and editor Fahd Ahmed will follow the screening on 4/14.