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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.
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.
Preview Screening: The Dead Don’t Hurt
Preview Screening: The Dead Don’t Hurt
The Dead Don’t Hurt is a story of star-crossed lovers on the western U.S. frontier in the 1860s. Followed by a Q&A with Viggo Mortensen and Vicky Krieps
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).
The Thin Red Line
The Thin Red Line
Terrence Malick’s World War II epic marked not only a professional comeback after 20 years of silence but also a major turning point in the filmmaker’s art.
NYC Gaymers at MoMI
NYC Gaymers at MoMI
To kick off Pride, MoMI welcomes NYC Gaymers for their 2nd annual Gaymer Pride, celebrating all aspects of gaming within the LGBTQIA+ community.
Princess Mononoke
Princess Mononoke
Princess Mononoke is one of Hayao Miyazaki's most beloved films, a complex, often violent tale that pitted warring clans and creatures against each other in 14th-century Japan. Screening 5/26 and 6/1.
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).
Defending Your Life
Defending Your Life
Albert Brooks’s captivating romantic comedy about the afterlife, screening 6/1 and 6/2, is a perfect showcase for the inimitable writer-director-star's mix of caustic social observation and emotional warmth.
Joe Versus the Volcano
Joe Versus the Volcano
After winning the Oscar for writing Moonstruck, Shanley got the greenlight for his ambitious, surreal comedy about a hypochondriac workaday schlub (Tom Hanks) who finds out he has a fatal “brain cloud” and dumps his soul-sucking office job to embark on a final adventure.
The Big Lebowski
The Big Lebowski
The Coen brothers’ funniest film is a scene-to-scene blast, expertly folding an endless array of visual jokes and verbal gags into an absurdly convoluted plot that casts Jeff Bridges's unemployed, eternally stoned Los Angeles bowling bum Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski as a loser Philip Marlowe.
Joe Versus the Volcano
Joe Versus the Volcano
After winning the Oscar for writing Moonstruck, Shanley got the greenlight for his ambitious, surreal comedy about a hypochondriac workaday schlub (Tom Hanks) who finds out he has a fatal “brain cloud” and dumps his soul-sucking office job to embark on a final adventure.
Introducing the Industry with IATSE
Introducing the Industry with IATSE
IATSE is the union behind entertainment, with over 170,000 members working in television, motion pictures, theater, and beyond. At this FREE EVENT on 6/2, meet the people who make the magic of the moving image possible, and discover how they got their start in the industry.
Defending Your Life
Defending Your Life
Albert Brooks’s captivating romantic comedy about the afterlife, screening 6/1 and 6/2, is a perfect showcase for the inimitable writer-director-star's mix of caustic social observation and emotional warmth.
Mars Attacks!
Mars Attacks!
On 5/24, Tim Burton's gleeful riff on 1950s sci-fi schlock, about an invasion of ray-gun-wielding Martians, kicks off our wide-ranging summer series See It Big at the '90s Multiplex.