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Journey from the Outside In: Ben Russell’s The Invisible Mountain + Shorts Program
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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: Imagination Unlimited
The Jim Henson Exhibition: Imagination Unlimited
This traveling exhibition explores Jim Henson’s groundbreaking work for film and television and his transformative impact on popular culture.
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.
Creatures from the Land of Thra: Character Design for The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
Creatures from the Land of Thra: Character Design for The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
This exhibition explores the process of designing the fantastical characters for the Netflix series prequel to the 1982 film.
An Act of Seeing: Barry Jenkins’s The Gaze
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.
Living with The Walking Dead
Living with The Walking Dead
This major new exhibition addresses the origins, production, fandom, and impact of The Walking Dead, one of the most watched shows in the history of cable television. Presented with support from AMC Networks.
LAIKA: Life in Stop Motion
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.
Dan Perri and the Art of the Title Sequence
Dan Perri and the Art of the Title Sequence
This exhibit explores the art of the title sequence by focusing on designs by one of its most acclaimed practitioners, Dan Perri. His work in the industry spans 50 years, from the early 1970s through the 2010s.
Fall Moving Image Workshop for Parents
Fall Moving Image Workshop for Parents
In this free class, parents will explore fun, therapeutic activities using moving image technologies, learning new media and games that are easily teachable to kids.
The Yards
The Yards
Filmmaker James Gray appears in person on October 14 presenting his Queens-set drama of working-class strivers and schemers, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, and James Caan.
Armageddon Time
Armageddon Time
James Gray's exquisitely detailed, deeply personal remembrance of growing up in Queens in 1980 screens October 14 with Gray in person.
Utama
Utama
Utama shows us the resilience of an elderly Quechua couple who safeguard family traditions threatened by drought and water shortage caused by climate change.
A Happy Henson Halloween
A Happy Henson Halloween
Enjoy a selection of classic monsters, music, and Muppets, including episodes of The Muppet Show featuring Vincent Price and Alice Cooper and other haunting classic clips from Jim Henson’s work.
Here at the Water’s Edge
Here at the Water’s Edge
Leo Hurwitz created his most beautiful film, a reverent, purely impressionistic voyage along the coastline and port of New York.
The Yards
The Yards
Filmmaker James Gray appears in person on October 14 presenting his Queens-set drama of working-class strivers and schemers, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, and James Caan.
Leo Hurwitz’s “The Art of Seeing” series
Leo Hurwitz’s “The Art of Seeing” series
Featuring some of the most exquisite and technically precise color 16mm cinematography in American documentary film, this series of short films became as personal a project as any Leo Hurwitz undertook over the course of his career.
Journey from the Outside In: Ben Russell’s The Invisible Mountain + Shorts Program
Journey from the Outside In: Ben Russell’s The Invisible Mountain + Shorts Program
On October 14, we present the U.S. premiere of Ben Russell’s new feature The Invisible Mountain, with Russell in person, plus a program of shorts that served as inspiration for the film.
A Happy Henson Halloween
A Happy Henson Halloween
Enjoy a selection of classic monsters, music, and Muppets, including episodes of The Muppet Show featuring Vincent Price and Alice Cooper and other haunting classic clips from Jim Henson’s work.
The Sun and Richard Lippold & An Essay on Death
The Sun and Richard Lippold & An Essay on Death
These two film essays, commissioned by National Education Television and photographed by Kirchheimer, represent peak moments in the sophistication of mainstream, televised documentary.
Up the Lazy River & One More Time
Up the Lazy River & One More Time
These two films represent the climax and coda of the urban suite Manfred Kirchheimer began in 2018. With Kircheimer in coversation on October 16.