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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
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
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
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
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.
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 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.
Community Curation
For MoMI’s Community Curation initiative, a committee of ten curators and collectors nominated a shortlist of boundary-pushing artists for display on the Museum’s Herbert S. Schlosser Media Wall. These artists’ works reflect how personal and cultural histories shape artistic practice.
Clayography in Motion: Adam Elliot’s Memoir of a Snail
The interactive animation section of the Museum’s core exhibition features a special focus on stop-motion-animation director Adam Elliot’s Academy Award–nominated film Memoir of a Snail.
Nickel Boys
Nickel Boys
A visually astonishing film that takes an uncompromising look at America’s past with cleansing, clear eyes. From Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel. With director RaMell Ross in person on January 7!
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
A tense and gripping thriller as well as a politically radical, antipatriarchal drama, Mohammad Rasoulof’s film was shot in secret, away from the eye of the censorious Iranian government. With Mohammad Rasoulof and co-star Mahsa Rostami in person!
Anora (in 35mm)
Anora (in 35mm)
Winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, this spellbinding, bullet-paced modern-day screwball comedy follows a young sex worker from Brighton Beach whose life takes an unexpected turn. With co-star Karren Karagulian in person on 1/9.
The Gold Rush
The Gold Rush
Charlie Chaplin’s sublimely funny and exquisitely made comedy is one of the unparalleled triumphs of silent cinema, an avalanche of groundbreaking effects, astonishing stunts, and humor made poetic. Screens 1/10 and 1/11.
Somebody Somewhere
Somebody Somewhere
Set in Manhattan, Kansas, the Peabody Award-winning HBO Original comedy series follows Sam (Bridget Everett), whose return to her hometown forces her to contend with family, friends, and her relationship to herself. With creators, writers, and executive producers Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen in person.
Sugarcane
Sugarcane
In 2021, evidence of unmarked graves was discovered on the grounds of an Indian residential school run by the Catholic Church in Canada. After years of silence, the forced separation, assimilation, and abuse many children experienced at these segregated boarding schools was brought to light, sparking a national outcry against a system designed to destroy Indigenous communities. With filmmaker Julian Brave NoiseCat in person.
Industry with Ken Leung in person
Industry with Ken Leung in person
Centered on the London office of behemoth international bank Pierpoint & Co, HBO’s Industry follows a coterie of ambitious young bankers as they navigate the tempestuous world of high finance. With actor Ken Leung in person!
Runaway Train
Runaway Train
Voight and Roberts both received Oscar nominations for their gripping, physically instinctive performances in Russian filmmaker Konchalovsky’s bullet-paced American thriller based upon an original story by Akira Kurosawa.
A Real Pain
A Real Pain
This two-hander showcase for a pair of our best contemporary American actors, Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg, underlines the difficulties of navigating a world of unyielding sadness with humor.
The Gold Rush
The Gold Rush
Charlie Chaplin’s sublimely funny and exquisitely made comedy is one of the unparalleled triumphs of silent cinema, an avalanche of groundbreaking effects, astonishing stunts, and humor made poetic. Screens 1/10 and 1/11.
Dahomey
Dahomey
In this spellbinding reckoning with colonialism and restitution, African art works take on lives and voices of their own as they cross the sea for a homecoming. With director Mati Diop in person!
Incident + Buried News with Bill Morrison in person
Incident + Buried News with Bill Morrison in person
Through a composite montage of images from surveillance and security footage as well as police bodycams, Incident provides witness to the killing of a Chicago barber by police.
Troma’s Bring on the Damned!
Troma’s Bring on the Damned!
Writer-director Brandon Bassham conjures up the horror anthology from hell with five tales of madness and humor in the tradition of Creepshow and Tales from the Crypt. Followed by a Q&A with Bassham.
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
For the sixth installment of its James Bond franchise, Eon Productions selected new face George Lazenby, a model with no previous acting experience, to fill Sean Connery’s already iconic shoes.
No Other Land
No Other Land
The year’s most urgent and devastating documentary is this collaboration between a group of Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers and activists.
Dourgouti Town
Dourgouti Town
Dimitris Bavellas's documentary traces the gentrification and virtual obliteration of Dourgouti, a residential district just south of the Acropolis. Screening 1/12 as part of the Greek film series Always on Sunday.
The Shining
The Shining
Stanley Kubrick’s psychological horror masterpiece in which writer Jack Torrance is driven mad while working as the caretaker of a cavernous Colorado hotel over the course of one isolated winter, screens 1/25 and 1/26.
Janet Planet
Janet Planet
Annie Baker's sublime directorial debut, set in summer 1991, is a singular cinematic experience, entering the specific world of a child as she slowly begins to come to terms with the reality around her. With Annie Baker in person on 1/12!