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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.
Mr. Yellow Sweatshirt
Mr. Yellow Sweatshirt
Shot in the Roosevelt Ave/Jackson Heights station, this installation video captures the tide of New Yorkers streaming through an entrance to the subway system in what the filmmakers refer to as a “collective ballet.”
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.
Videofreak
Videofreak
Allen Riley's Videofreak reimagines the arcade game experience by emphasizing the art of video manipulation over traditional gameplay elements like scorekeeping and end goals.
Tide Predictor
Tide Predictor
Tide Predictor is LoVid’s first code-driven generative artwork, a departure from a majority of their catalog, which centers experimentation with actual analog video. It will be displayed on the Museum's Schlosser Media Wall in the lobby.
Fiona Tan: Footsteps
Fiona Tan: Footsteps
In this video installation drawn exclusively from films made between 1896 and the late 1920s, Tan pairs mesmerizing moments of people working over a century ago—sewing fishing nets, harvesting wheat, collecting chicken eggs, sorting oysters—with missives from her Australia-based father, read aloud by Scottish actor Ian Henderson.
Queens World Film Festival 2024
Queens World Film Festival 2024
The Queens World Film Festival (QWFF), organized by Katha and Preston Cato and their team of collaborators, is an annual festival that features screenings, industry panels, special events, and youth-oriented educational initiatives.
Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tours
Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tours
Join us for a special guided tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition! The tour costs $5.00 per visitor (on top of admission ticket).
Classic Warner Bros. Cartoons
Classic Warner Bros. Cartoons
This selection of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies classics directed by Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Art Davis, and Bob Clampett spans the breadth of Warner Bros. Cartoons’ output during the post-WWII years. Screening 4/5, 4/7, and 4/19.
The Sweet East
The Sweet East
Nothing is sacred in the knockabout feature directorial debut of acclaimed cinematographer Sean Price Williams and critic-turned-screenwriter Nick Pinkerton, screening in 35mm.
David Lebrun: Looking Back, Moving Forward—Program 1: The Sixties (1966–1970)
David Lebrun: Looking Back, Moving Forward—Program 1: The Sixties (1966–1970)
Highlights of this program include Lebrun’s Sanctus, a psychedelic exploration of sacred rituals and the divine essence that connects humanity, and Hog Farm Movie, a tribute to the revolutionary era of the 1960s.
Fargo
Fargo
This dark comedy about a botched kidnapping in rural Minnesota that turns into a triple homicide is the quintessential Joel and Ethan Coen movie.
Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tours
Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tours
Join us for a special guided tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition! The tour costs $5.00 per visitor (on top of admission ticket).
David Lebrun: Looking Back, Moving Forward—Program 2: Animation (1976–2004)
David Lebrun: Looking Back, Moving Forward—Program 2: Animation (1976–2004)
MoMI welcomes filmmaker David Lebrun for a retrospective of his work from 1966 to today. Program Two includes Lebrun’s celebrated Tanka, a cyclical journey through the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
David Lebrun: Looking Back, Moving Forward—Program 3: Transfigurations—Reanimating the Past (2018–2024)
David Lebrun: Looking Back, Moving Forward—Program 3: Transfigurations—Reanimating the Past (2018–2024)
This program explores David Lebrun’s most recent works; though intended for museum exhibition, they are presented here in the cinema.
The Sweet East
The Sweet East
Nothing is sacred in the knockabout feature directorial debut of acclaimed cinematographer Sean Price Williams and critic-turned-screenwriter Nick Pinkerton, screening in 35mm.
Common Enemy
Common Enemy
On April 21, MoMI presents the New York City premiere of The Humane League documentary organized by MoMI's Teen Council. The film examines individuals affected by corporate animal agriculture. Includes a post-screening panel discussion and Q&A.
1968
1968
On April 4, 1968, an epic basketball game between Greek team AEK and Slavia Prague gave Greece its first European Cup against all odds.
About Thirty (Arturo a los 30)
About Thirty (Arturo a los 30)
Martín Shanly’s second feature is a witty comedy of errors about Arturo (played by the director himself), who, on the way to the wedding party of his former best friend, is involved in a bizarre car accident. Q&A with Shanly and star Camila Dougall on April 21.