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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.
Queens World Film Festival 2024
Queens World Film Festival 2024
The Queens World Film Festival (QWFF), organized by Katha and Preston Cato and their team of collaborators, is an annual festival that features screenings, industry panels, special events, and youth-oriented educational initiatives.
Mini-Game Retro Jam
Mini-Game Retro Jam
Join us in person at MoMI for our spring 2024 game jam! Participants will bring the fun from the big screen to the arcade in a game jam hosted in our state-of-the-art Game Lab!
Elemental
Elemental
Every day during spring break week, the Museum will screen Pixar’s 2023 release, nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Feature, which brilliantly renders flames, water drops, clouds, and soil as fully alive characters inhabiting a New York–like metropolis.
Elemental
Elemental
Every day during spring break week, the Museum will screen Pixar’s 2023 release, nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Feature, which brilliantly renders flames, water drops, clouds, and soil as fully alive characters inhabiting a New York–like metropolis.
Elemental
Elemental
Every day during spring break week, the Museum will screen Pixar’s 2023 release, nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Feature, which brilliantly renders flames, water drops, clouds, and soil as fully alive characters inhabiting a New York–like metropolis.
Elemental
Elemental
Every day during spring break week, the Museum will screen Pixar’s 2023 release, nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Feature, which brilliantly renders flames, water drops, clouds, and soil as fully alive characters inhabiting a New York–like metropolis.
Elemental
Elemental
Every day during spring break week, the Museum will screen Pixar’s 2023 release, nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Feature, which brilliantly renders flames, water drops, clouds, and soil as fully alive characters inhabiting a New York–like metropolis.
Science on Screen: Shorts on Attention
Science on Screen: Shorts on Attention
This program of short films explores the myriad ways our attention can be focused or unfocused by the moving image. With historian of science D. Graham Burnett and filmmakers William Wiebe and Sheri Wills in person.
Elemental
Elemental
Every day during spring break week, the Museum will screen Pixar’s 2023 release, nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Feature, which brilliantly renders flames, water drops, clouds, and soil as fully alive characters inhabiting a New York–like metropolis.
I Need You Dead!
I Need You Dead!
After a moment of total teenage angst, a young punk finds himself at odds with a psychedelic monster of his own creation in the Bad Taste Video Team's psychedelic debut feature with director Rocko Zevenbergen in person on 4/27!
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
Radu Jude's anarchic satire is a wild and unforgettable ride through the vulgar indignities of the 21st century.
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.