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GENERAL ADMISSION
You can buy admission tickets online. Pick a date and time to visit the Museum. Timed-entry slots are released generally one-month prior. All sales are final and payments cannot be refunded.
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.
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.
My Own Yard to Play in
My Own Yard to Play in
My Own Yard to Play in documents children at play on the streets of Harlem in the late 1950s.
Back to Black
Back to Black
This new film dramatizes the extraordinary story of Amy Winehouse’s rise to fame from her early days in Camden to the making of her groundbreaking album. With director Sam Taylor-Johnson and star Marisa Abela in person.
The Beast
The Beast
Bertrand Bonello has created a dynamic and disturbing parable that jumps between three different time periods (1910, 2014, and 2044) to diagnose our acute—and perhaps eternal—feelings of estrangement and alienation. Screening 5/10–5/18.
2024 Teen Film Festival
2024 Teen Film Festival
Join us on 5/17 for the annual Teen Film Festival, hosted by the MoMI Teen Council. The festival will screen twelve selected short works by teen filmmakers from New York City's five boroughs. Learn more.
House on Haunted Hill
House on Haunted Hill
This fan favorite chiller from gimmick master William Castle, screening 5/17 and 5/19, stars horror icon Vincent Price in one of his most gleefully sinister performances.
The Right Stuff
The Right Stuff
Kaufman’s mammoth adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s bestseller about the selection and lift-off of NASA’s first astronauts, known as the Mercury Seven, is a singular Hollywood epic. Screens 5/18 and 5/25.
The Beast
The Beast
Bertrand Bonello has created a dynamic and disturbing parable that jumps between three different time periods (1910, 2014, and 2044) to diagnose our acute—and perhaps eternal—feelings of estrangement and alienation. Screening 5/10–5/18.
Open Worlds Opening Day
Open Worlds Opening Day
Join MoMI for the opening day festivities of Open Worlds. Following a ceremonial ribbon-cutting at 4:00 p.m, DJ Stretch Armstrong will kick off the party alongside an installation by artist Joshua Davis.
House on Haunted Hill
House on Haunted Hill
This fan favorite chiller from gimmick master William Castle, screening 5/17 and 5/19, stars horror icon Vincent Price in one of his most gleefully sinister performances.
Live Code: Real-Time Visual Music Since the 1980s
Live Code: Real-Time Visual Music Since the 1980s
Don’t miss this panel, part of Open Worlds opening weekend, featuring artists and subject experts who will share insights into the groundbreaking artwork, software, and events that have shaped live code practices.
Notes of an Itinerant Performer
Notes of an Itinerant Performer
Largely due to its atypical period setting in the late Meiji era and its theme of female self-sacrifice, Shimizu’s film has drawn comparison to similar works by Kenji Mizoguchi.
Dodo
Dodo
A dodo, a bird extinct for the last 300 years, shows up at the villa of a financially troubled family on the eve of the daughter's advantageous wedding to a wealthy heir.
Children of the Beehive
Children of the Beehive
The most celebrated of Shimizu’s postwar films, screening 5/19, is a momentous work depicting the shattered state of reconstruction-era Japan.
Three Promises
Three Promises
In the early 2000s, Suha begins filming her daily life in Bethlehem as the Israeli army lays siege to the West Bank in retaliation over the second intifada.