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Creatures from the Land of Thra: Character Design for The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
Museum of the Moving Image 36-01 35 Ave, Astoria
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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.
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
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.
Adapting Stories for the Screen: Chinonye Chukwu’s Till
This new temporary exhibition explores the process of creating the story depicted in Chinonye Chukwu’s acclaimed 2022 feature Till, through storyboards created by Jesse Michael Owen.
Adapting Stories for the Screen: Sarah Polley’s Women Talking
The material on view in this new exhibition provides a glimpse into the process of bringing the story of Sarah Polley’s film Women Talking to the screen.
Cinema of Sensations: The Never-Ending Screen of Val del Omar
This major exhibition brings the immersive, multisensory cinematic installations of visionary Spanish artist, filmmaker, and inventor José Val del Omar (1904–1982) to U.S. audiences for the first time, along with commissioned pieces by contemporary artists Sally Golding, Matt Spendlove, and Tim Cowlishaw; Duo Prismáticas; Esperanza Collado; and Colectivo Los Ingrávidos.
Tokyo Story
Tokyo Story
Ozu's quiet and haunting masterpiece, following an aging couple on a journey from their rural village to visit their married children in bustling postwar Tokyo, screens 3/24 and 3/26.
Mami Wata
Mami Wata
In the waters off the coast of West Africa swims the powerful mermaid goddess Mami Wata. Nigerian filmmaker C.J. "Fiery" Obasi's closing night selection for First Look 2023, on Sunday, March 19, electrifies the eye.
A Frog’s Life: From Sam and Friends to Stardom
A Frog’s Life: From Sam and Friends to Stardom
Celebrate Kermit the Frog's 60+ years on the scene with a compilation of Jim Henson’s most memorable performances as Kermit. Join us 3/25 and 3/26, both events hosted by Craig Shemin, President of The Jim Henson Legacy.
Ewelina Rosińska (First Look Shorts 1)
Ewelina Rosińska (First Look Shorts 1)
The films of Ewelina Rosińska are ecstatically impressionistic diary works whose rhythmic montages create expansive connections between sounds and images that fuse disparate spaces, feelings, and moments in time.
Neither Here nor There (First Look Shorts 2)
Neither Here nor There (First Look Shorts 2)
A selection of shorts from this year's First Look 2023.
New Strains
New Strains
Shaw and Kamalakanthan’s film is at once a depressingly accurate evocation of the city’s first few months of lockdown and an endearing display of cinematic ingenuity under extreme duress.
Dreamed Works (First Look Shorts 3)
Dreamed Works (First Look Shorts 3)
A selection of shorts from First Look 2023, including films by Lucrecia Martel, Robert Greene, Anthony Ing, and others.
A Frog’s Life: From Sam and Friends to Stardom
A Frog’s Life: From Sam and Friends to Stardom
Celebrate Kermit the Frog's 60+ years on the scene with a compilation of Jim Henson’s most memorable performances as Kermit. Join us 3/25 and 3/26, both events hosted by Craig Shemin, President of The Jim Henson Legacy.
The Taste of Mango
The Taste of Mango
This tender and poetic love letter from daughter to mother expresses a complexity of feeling and affinity that only cinema might approach.
Patchwork
Patchwork
On 3/26, our Greek film series presents a gripping drama exploring female contentment and fulfillment with Angeliki Papoulia.
Three Women
Three Women
The opposite of a detached portrait, Three Women freely engages and communes with the village, capturing the warmth of the place and its people.
Tokyo Story
Tokyo Story
Ozu's quiet and haunting masterpiece, following an aging couple on a journey from their rural village to visit their married children in bustling postwar Tokyo, screens 3/24 and 3/26.
Art Talent Show
Art Talent Show
Every year the Academy of Arts (AVU) in Prague receives hundreds of applications. Art Talent Show observes every step in the arduous process for three studios.