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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

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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

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This dynamic experience explores Jim Henson’s groundbreaking work for film and television and his transformative impact on culture. 

An Act of Seeing: Barry Jenkins’s The Gaze

In his companion piece installation to The Underground Railroad, Jenkins further engages ideas about visibility, history, and power in moving-image portraits of the show’s background actors.

LAIKA: Life in Stop Motion

This new exhibition invites visitors of all ages to appreciate the painstaking work of stop-motion animation, with eight animation stations equipped with 2-D LAIKA character figures and environments that visitors can use to experiment with and create their own short films.

Office of In Visibility Presents: SAN TV

With this video installation by artist sTo Len, who is currently a Public Artist in Residence (PAIR) at the New York City Department of Sanitation, viewers have the chance to report, via green screen, from various shuttered waste sites in New York City, such as the Fresh Kills Landfill.  

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City Lights

Investing two years and two million dollars, Chaplin dared to make a silent picture four years after synchronized sound revolutionized cinema—and created his masterpiece. See it on the big screen 1/21 & 1/22!

Ode to Joy + A Portrait of Mr. Huang

On 1/22, we begin our Qiu Jiongjiong retrospective with these two playful and entertaining short documentaries, introduced by guest curator Shelly Kraicer.

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The Big Sleep

On 1/20, we kick off our Snubbed series with Howard Hawks’s unqualified noir masterpiece, starring Bogart as Philip Marlowe, a private detective hired to investigate a series of troubles plaguing an affluent family.

A New Old Play

On January 22, see Qiu Jiongjiong's hand-crafted masterwork, an homage to classical Chinese opera.

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In a Lonely Place

This moody and electrifying thriller with Humphrey Bogart and directed by Nicholas Ray, master of the fifties melodrama about troubled masculinity, is among Hollywood’s darkest character studies.