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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. Extended through December 1, 2024!
Easel Engine
Easel Engine
This series of video works span a multi-generational evolution of digital graphics, from early 1-bit constraints to complex three-dimensional models.
Recording the Ride: The Rise of Street-Style Skate Videos
Recording the Ride: The Rise of Street-Style Skate Videos
This exhibition features videos and artifacts from skate culture’s formative years, with a focus on releases by H-Street, Plan B, World Industries, Girl, and others that defined the modern skate video genre.
Waxwing
Waxwing
Waxwing subverts the traditional light gun, a device that allows players to aim and shoot at targets on a video game screen, by reimagining it as a literal source of light, shifting the focus from violence to an exploration of aspirations and the human condition.
Sasha Stiles at MoMI
Sasha Stiles at MoMI
Sasha Stiles’s video explores the ability for deep connection cultivated through the web.
The Seventh Victim
The Seventh Victim
This pocket-size portrait of evil and despair from Val Lewton stars Oscar-winner Kim Hunter in her film debut as a young woman who leaves the safety of her boarding school to track down her missing sister (a haunting Jean Brooks), who has fallen in with a death-obsessed, Satan-worshipping cult.
The Fog
The Fog
Carpenter’s film serves up one gorgeous-terrifying image after another and features a host of perfectly cast horror icons from Jamie Lee Curtis and her mother Janet Leigh to Adrienne Barbeau.
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: 50th Anniversary Release
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: 50th Anniversary Release
Today it remains unequaled as a landmark of outlaw filmmaking, and is perhaps the most frightening film ever made.
The Seventh Victim
The Seventh Victim
This pocket-size portrait of evil and despair from Val Lewton stars Oscar-winner Kim Hunter in her film debut as a young woman who leaves the safety of her boarding school to track down her missing sister (a haunting Jean Brooks), who has fallen in with a death-obsessed, Satan-worshipping cult.
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla
Many believe Godzilla has turned his back on humanity when he suddenly arrives in Japan, leaving destruction in his wake. But when the true Godzilla appears, the monster on the rampage is revealed to be Mechagodzilla, a mechanical menace built by an invading alien force.
The Fog
The Fog
Carpenter’s film serves up one gorgeous-terrifying image after another and features a host of perfectly cast horror icons from Jamie Lee Curtis and her mother Janet Leigh to Adrienne Barbeau.
The Indian in the Cupboard
The Indian in the Cupboard
When nine-year-old Omri (Hal Scardino) receives a cupboard for his birthday, he soon realizes that with just one turn of a magical key, the toys he puts inside come to life. The best-selling children’s novel by Lynne Reid Banks comes to entrancing life in Frank Oz’s richly realized adaptation.
Program 1: A Hundred Years of Argentine Animated Films
Program 1: A Hundred Years of Argentine Animated Films
Organized by genre, this curated program brings together classical animators, self-taught pioneers, and independent and underground filmmakers.
Mothra vs. Godzilla
Mothra vs. Godzilla
Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko are covering the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg belonging to Mothra is found in Japanese waters and claimed by greedy capitalists.
Program 2: Hey, Kids: Cartoons from Argentina!
Program 2: Hey, Kids: Cartoons from Argentina!
From the smallest man in the world to an exhilarating journey to Mars, this luminous program presents creations from the last two decades of Argentine animated cinema that will appeal to the youngest viewers.
Day of the Dead 2024
Day of the Dead 2024
Celebrate a vibrant Day of the Dead at Museum of the Moving Image with a performance of Aztec Mexica dance, ofrendas, fun digital media activities for kids and families, and music from Indigenous dance troupe Yayauhki Tezcatlipoka.
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
hidorah, the Three-Headed Monster is an electrifying debut for Godzilla’s most popular enemy and marks a turning point in the original cycle of Showa era Godzilla films that sees the King of the Monsters come to the aid of humanity for the very first time.
The Others
The Others
Following the Museum's 2024 Day of the Dead celebration on 11/2, we present Alejandro Amenábar's brilliant 2001 ghost story, starring Nicole Kidman as a young British mother awaiting her husband’s return from the front lines of World War I.
The Return of Godzilla
The Return of Godzilla
Thirty years after the kaiju’s first attack, a string of shocking disasters at sea signals the return of Godzilla.
Program 3: Teenage Mutant Argentine Animation!
Program 3: Teenage Mutant Argentine Animation!
This program showcases happily mutant creations from yesterday and today, animated shorts that transform the animated medium, odysseys of growth, science, and nature that address evolutionary leaps in the human race.
Program 4: The Adventures of Hijitus and Don Manuel García Ferré
Program 4: The Adventures of Hijitus and Don Manuel García Ferré
From comics to animated blockbusters, to his children's magazine Anteojito (the longest running magazine of its kind in Latin American history), to commercials, García Ferré founded a powerful, heartfelt, and playful empire with no equal in Argentina.
Gojira
Gojira
The horrors of nuclear destruction were rendered B-movie poetry in the landmark Japanese mega-hit that launched the legendary Godzilla series, screening 11/3.
The Indian in the Cupboard
The Indian in the Cupboard
When nine-year-old Omri (Hal Scardino) receives a cupboard for his birthday, he soon realizes that with just one turn of a magical key, the toys he puts inside come to life. The best-selling children’s novel by Lynne Reid Banks comes to entrancing life in Frank Oz’s richly realized adaptation.
Godzilla Minus One
Godzilla Minus One
Released to great acclaim from fans and critics alike, Godzilla Minus One recaptures the bleak atmosphere of the 1954 original like no other sequel has done and elevates the reputation of the franchise’s special effects to new heights. Screening 11/3!