Creating The Dark Crystal

Watch MoMI’s live conversation with the creators of The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. They shared behind-the-scenes stories and answered questions about expanding the Land of Thra for the series.

An Evening with John DeMarsico

John DeMarsico, New York Mets Game Director for nightly SNY broadcasts—the most creative, entertaining, and innovative live sports show in the country—came to MoMI for a big-screen showcase of the cinematic inspirations for his baseball broadcasts.

A Conversation Honoring James Wong Howe

Watch an in-depth virtual conversation about James Wong Howe’s legacy featuring two veteran Asian American cinematographers, Michael Goi and Eric Lin.

ARI ASTER

Interview
The director of Beau Is Afraid sits down for a conversation with Reverse Shot editor Michael Koresky.

CITIZEN DIELMAN

Essay
Guest curator David Schwartz writes an essay about Chantal Akerman’s influences on her classic Jeanne Dielman to coincide with his screening series at MoMI.

TRENQUE LAUQUEN

Review
Sarah Fensom writes about Argentinean director Laura Citarella’s singular, stories-within-stories mystery, set in a small town where a woman named Laura has disappeared.

FIRE OF LOVE

Interview
Clive Oppenheimer, Professor of Volcanology at the University of Cambridge, talks about married volcanologists Maurice and Katia Krafft and Sara Dosa’s remarkable documentary about their lives.

GOOD NIGHT, OPPY

Interview
Inspired visual effects tell the true story of NASA rovers Spirit and Opportunity—“Oppy”—who embarked on a 90-day mission to Mars in 2004 only to last years. The film’s maker, Ryan White, discusses this remarkable new documentary.

SAM GREEN on 32 SOUNDS

Interview
Green’s film focuses on the sonic elements of the environments through which it moves—from archival recordings, to the work of a foley artist, through the history of experimental music.

Om Puri

On August 3, 2014, the internationally renowned actor known for such films as Ardh Satya and East Is East  was the focus of a special tribute program at MoMI, and was interviewed about his remarkable life and career by Madhur Jaffrey, the prolific cookbook author, actress, and journalist.

Glenn Close

On September 5, 2005, the eight-time Oscar nominee and three-time Tony Award winner, spoke at the Museum about her harrowing performance in Fatal Attraction, and about how she overcame her shyness to forge her remarkable career on stage and screen.

White Zombies: Nightmares of Empire

Kelli Weston explores the legacies of racism that created the origins of the zombie myth for this essay that accompanies MoMI’s screening series, curated by Weston.

2001: A Space Odyssey

Kubrick’s sci-fi masterpiece envisioned a realistic future for human space travel; imagined a cautionary tale about our reliance upon rapidly advancing technologies; and offered an abstracted, ambiguous narrative about the spiritual paths for all sentient beings that’s still discussed and puzzled over.

Jim Henson

With his gently subversive humor, restless curiosity, and innovative approach to puppetry, Henson built the Muppets into an enduring international brand, contributed beloved puppet characters to Sesame Street, and applied his vivid imagination to stories for the big screen.

The Bunin Puppets

In 2001, the Museum acquired over 2,000 artifacts related to the work of puppeteers Hope and Morey Bunin. The Bunins created a cast of puppet characters that were featured on television as early as 1944.

The Silent Film Era

The Museum’s silent film era holdings include over 5,000 artifacts dating from 1894 to 1931. The holdings represent every facet of silent filmmaking and filmgoing, and offer an unparalleled opportunity for users to study and experience how these films were made, marketed, and exhibited.

Don’t Forget the Pictures

The Living Room Candidate

Explore television and internet ads from every presidential campaign, from 1952 to 2020, in MoMI’s extensive online resource. The 2020 edition of The Living Room Candidate has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Every Movie Cough

Since the beginning of motion pictures, filmmakers have trained their cameras at whooping, wheezing, sneezing, sniffling, hacking humans. Some of these expulsions are pivotal to the narrative. Many are purely incidental. But today, they all take on a new significance as vectors for disease.

Wonder Rooms

This collaborative archival and data collection project turns MoMI’s long-running core exhibition Behind the Screen into a site of testimony and witness, seeks to fill in stories not on display, and to draw attention to the struggles and triumphs of people of color who have long existed in the margins of film and television.