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When his hairdressing salon is destroyed by the municipality, Romeo must leave the high street of Toamasina for a harder-to-find shack in a residential neighborhood. Madagascan director Michael Andrianaly will appear in person with his wonderful documentary Nofinofy on 3/8.
Criminal mastermind Constantine, a Kermit the Frog look-alike, replaces Kermit as the Muppets go on a European tour. Introduced by Craig Shemin on 3/9 and 3/10.
Jonathan Demme was at the height of his madcap powers with this quintessential rollicking eighties comic adventure starring a breakout Melanie Griffith as the maniacally free-spirited Lulu.
An intimately raw and magical journey through the life, mind, and heart of Frida Kahlo, Frida tells the artist's story through her own words for the very first time. Director Carla Gutiérrez in person.
Mike Leigh's brilliantly unexpected comedy about happiness and the perception of our shared reality stars a singular Sally Hawkins as Poppy, a bouncy, relentlessly optimistic primary school teacher from North London. See it in 35mm during our Snubbed series 3/9 and 3/10.
Criminal mastermind Constantine, a Kermit the Frog look-alike, replaces Kermit as the Muppets go on a European tour. Introduced by Craig Shemin on 3/9 and 3/10.
Mike Leigh's brilliantly unexpected comedy about happiness and the perception of our shared reality stars a singular Sally Hawkins as Poppy, a bouncy, relentlessly optimistic primary school teacher from North London. See it in 35mm during our Snubbed series 3/9 and 3/10.
Using a unique directorial approach, Alexandros Voulgaris tells the story of a woman who returns to Polydroso, the village where she was born and raised, to care for her ailing mother.
Snubbed: Charles Grodin Dir. Elaine May. 1972, U.S. 106 mins. 35mm print courtesy of the BFI National Archive. With Charles Grodin, Cybill Shepard, Jeannie Berlin, Eddie Albert, Audra Lindley. May’s gutsy anti-romantic comedy stars a ...
Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense is considered by many critics the greatest concert film of all time.
The Working on It program offers a lab-like environment for work-in-progress screenings, workshops, and discussions about the artistic process. This year’s edition will take place during the afternoons of March 13–15, and is open to ...
For First Look 2024 opening night on 3/13, see the Sundance-awarded drama in which a young man, orphaned by the Mexican drug cartels, grows up in the shadow of violence. Directed by Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez, two of the finest filmmakers of their generation.
The Working on It program offers a lab-like environment for work-in-progress screenings, workshops, and discussions about the artistic process.
For the seventh consecutive year, First Look presents Jury award–winning graduate and undergraduate student films from the Jonathan B. Murray Center for Documentary Journalism at the Missouri School of Journalism.
In the economic capital of Madagascar, four undocumented workers from across the country at a neighborhood car wash endure their lot until they can earn enough to secure their identity papers and seek a better future. Paired with Everson’s mesmerizing black-and-white diptych.
In the spectacular mountains of southwest Georgia sits the Abastumani sanatorium, a treatment hospital for patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis, which becomes a site of fantasies and nightmares, a home of the living and the dead, in this reflection of a place and moment.
Young women in the remote Mexican town of El Echo exude vivacious optimism while shouldering disproportionately gendered responsibilities of family, farm life, and town. See it 3/14 with director Tatiana Huezo in person for First Look 2024.
The Working on It program offers a lab-like environment for work-in-progress screenings, workshops, and discussions about the artistic process. This year’s edition will take place during the afternoons of March 13–15, and is open to ...
Join us for a reception on March 15 with artist Fiona Tan to celebrate the opening of Footsteps, now on view in the Amphitheater Gallery. The reception will include a conversation between Tan and curator Sonia Epstein.
The same year that Alain Resnais’s masterpiece Hiroshima mon amour was released, science fiction writer and theorist Stanisław Lem began writing his influential novel Solaris, an artistic confluence that inspires this wholly original and emotionally resonant found footage film.
Over the past thirteen years, Zhang has documented her father’s village in Hubei, China, as a repository of ancestral memory; for the tenth of these films, Zhang installed herself permanently in the village upon the outbreak of COVID-19. The result is an immense accomplishment, vividly depicting a year in the life of a stoic rural community, far removed from an urban-centered pandemic.
This rapturous, dazzlingly unconventional debut feature dives deep into the life, mind, and spirit of a twentysomething Dominican American woman finding her footing in South Brooklyn. Screens 3/15 as part of First Look 2024.
Select scenes from the two screenplays awarded the 2023 Sloan Student Prizes will be read by professional actors as part of this special program, produced and directed by Mêlisa Annis, and followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.
The magnetic pull between artist and filmmaker yields something beguiling and precious, celebrating the fiery Philly even as she and the world she fought to protect are being actively extinguished.
This poignant, warts-and-all portrait of a family separated by space but still profoundly connected in each other’s hearts, minds, and dreams is composed almost entirely of webcam footage between the Berlin-based, Iranian émigré filmmaker, his parents, and his friend.
Playful, elusive, and tactile, these eclectic works are unified by their filmmakers’ attempts to orient themselves in a world of constant, turbulent flux.
In Farhad Delaram’s seductive, shape-shifting debut feature, former filmmaker Farid works nights at a Tehran hospital—and sleeps there most days too. Estranged from his partner and hopeless about the future, he starts to awaken after meeting a patient in the psychiatric ward whose supposed fits of madness he innately understands.
Documenting her family’s attempts at locating her brother after he goes missing in a war between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Shoghakat Vardanyan films things we don’t often see: the struggles, emotions, and Kafkaesque runarounds when missing soldiers and their families are reduced to a statistic. Screens 3/16 as part of First Look 2024.
In 1968, Brazil’s military dictatorship enacted Institutional Act No. 5, which suspended the constitution, silenced citizens, and opted overtly into totalitarianism. This astonishing and ingenious film features archival audio document of the meeting that decided this act, combined with blithe moving image propaganda perpetuated by the government.
Imagine a lost feature by the Maysles Brothers or Ricky Leacock, filmed right when they might have consorted with a colorful and tragic character like Pep, and you’ve got The Featherweight. See it 3/16 with director Robert Kolodny in person for First Look 2024.
The filmmakers drop into the fictional landscape of the videogame DayZ as journalistic avatars and must battle a zombie apocalypse while endeavoring to stay alive long enough to film their interactions with the surprising community of people who spend their time in this VR world.
In Kim Taeyang’s richly cryptic debut feature, a young man and woman, unnamed former acquaintances, meet by chance in the historic Jongno district at the heart of Seoul, then walk and talk, visiting and revisiting Jongno’s landmarks and byways over the years, much of the city and them changing beyond recognition.
In Yangon, Myanmar, a couple, Aung Min and San San Oo, operate a neighborhood clinic, providing low-cost treatments and therapies for a range of physical and psychological maladies. They also make art—paintings and films—as revealed in this shapeshifting film that starts as direct cinema then blossoms into a self-reflexive examination of the Burmese soul.
In this form-blending, refreshing work of autofiction, siblings Arthur and Diana are on a meandering road trip through France, Germany, and Italy that brings out deep-seated family dynamics that will feel familiar to older sisters and younger brothers.
Lois Patiño’s latest inquiry into the spiritual valences of cinema travels first to the temples of Laos and then to the shores of Tanzania by way of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Screening 3/17 as part of First Look 2024.
Georgian filmmakers Elene Asatiani and Soso Dumbadze construct an archival horror film about 1991’s bloody military coup d'état against the government of Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Georgia’s first democratically elected president, forgoing contextual titles, narration, or interviews.
Graham Swon’s sophomore feature, displaying a remarkable devotion to craft, combining elements of Gothic horror, pulp mystery, and period romance, screens 3/17 as part of First Look 2024.
In the First Look 2024 closing night film, five recent high-school graduates escape small-town Oregon for one last adventure together, trekking 500 miles westward for their first visit to the Pacific coast. The latest film from Bill and Turner Ross is a joyous exploration (and detonation) of the borderlands of reality, mythology, narrative, improvisation, the discernable, and the ineffable.
Terence Davies’s magnificent adaptation of Edith Wharton’s 1905 novel is a sumptuous triumph all around, yet its beating, battered heart belongs to Gillian Anderson, who miraculously evokes tragic heroine Lily Bart. Encore screening 3/22 on 35mm.
This rapturous, dazzlingly unconventional debut feature dives deep into the life, mind, and spirit of a twentysomething Dominican American woman finding her footing in South Brooklyn. Screens 3/15 as part of First Look 2024.
Powell and Pressburger’s influential backstage drama masterpiece about a rising star ballerina consumed by perfectionism features an unforgettable extended fantasy ballet, and Oscar-winning art direction and musical score. Screens 3/23, 3/24, and 3/29.
Snubbed: Regina Hall Dir. Andrew Bujalski. 2018, U.S. 93 mins. DCP. With Regina Hall, Haley Lu Richardson, Dylan Gelula, Zoe Graham. Regina Hall is effortlessly magnetic as Lisa, the general manager of the Hooters-like sports ...
Imagine a lost feature by the Maysles Brothers or Ricky Leacock, filmed right when they might have consorted with a colorful and tragic character like Pep, and you’ve got The Featherweight. See it 3/16 with director Robert Kolodny in person for First Look 2024.
Powell and Pressburger’s influential backstage drama masterpiece about a rising star ballerina consumed by perfectionism features an unforgettable extended fantasy ballet, and Oscar-winning art direction and musical score. Screens 3/23, 3/24, and 3/29.
Jonathan Demme was at the height of his madcap powers with this quintessential rollicking eighties comic adventure starring a breakout Melanie Griffith as the maniacally free-spirited Lulu.
From acclaimed filmmaker Goran Stolevski (Of an Age) comes a story exploring the universal truths of family: the ones we’re born into and the ones we find for ourselves.
Our 3/28 opening night includes a reception; virtual reality showcase; and a selection of short films that explore the multitude of ways autistic people navigate dating and relationships.
Powell and Pressburger’s influential backstage drama masterpiece about a rising star ballerina consumed by perfectionism features an unforgettable extended fantasy ballet, and Oscar-winning art direction and musical score. Screens 3/23, 3/24, and 3/29.
This workshop invites autistic visitors and media-makers are invited to learn how to perform puppetry on screen. Participants will gain knowledge about theater and perform original stories and become more confident puppeteers.
This dramatic feature follows two estranged sisters forced together by their mother’s sudden death.
One of Scorsese’s supreme achievements brilliantly articulates the passion of its director’s ongoing cinematic project for depicting the complexities of faith and violence. Screens 3/29 and 3/30.
Glazer has made a film about the Holocaust unlike any other, using obliqueness and the abstraction of terror to speak to the ways in which we all shield our eyes from evil. Screens 3/29–4/6.
These four well-crafted animated shorts are perfect for kids of all ages, taking viewers into fantastical, vibrant worlds.
These inventive films offer innovative experimental film techniques, and unique storylines.
One of Scorsese’s supreme achievements brilliantly articulates the passion of its director’s ongoing cinematic project for depicting the complexities of faith and violence. Screens 3/29 and 3/30.
As part of Museum of the Moving Image’s Marvels of Media Festival and co-presented by Strokes of Genius, autistic visitors and media-makers are welcome to join us for the Collage Animation Workshop.
On 3/30 and 3/31, see the breakthrough film in America for Oscar-winning director Ang Lee, the moving, New York–set story of a gay Taiwanese immigrant who marries a woman from China, both to help her procure a green card and to convince his parents that he is straight.
Spirit Riser is a genre-bending fantasy with elements of horror, comedy, action, surrealism, and martial arts from rising New York City filmmaker Dylan Mars Greenberg, who will appear in person!
On 3/30 and 3/31, see the breakthrough film in America for Oscar-winning director Ang Lee, the moving, New York–set story of a gay Taiwanese immigrant who marries a woman from China, both to help her procure a green card and to convince his parents that he is straight.
A Tokyo office worker (Rinko Kikuchi) finds a battered VHS tape of a fictional film and becomes convinced the movie’s lost satchel of money is real is David Zellner's breakthrough comic mystery. Screening with filmmakers Nathan Zellner and David Zellner in person 3/31.
Paul Newman directed this sweeping saga set in the Pacific Northwest based on the celebrated novel by Ken Kesey about a hard-bitten Oregon lumber family that bucks their close-knit community to deliver a shipment of logs during a strike. Screening 3/31.
Glazer has made a film about the Holocaust unlike any other, using obliqueness and the abstraction of terror to speak to the ways in which we all shield our eyes from evil. Screens 3/29–4/6.
In the forests of North America, a family of Sasquatches—possibly the last of their enigmatic kind—embark on an absurdist, poignant journey over the course of one year. Screening 3/31 with directors Nathan and David Zellner in person!
MoMI is partnering with Art Blocks, an online platform for code-based generative art, to host their exclusive anchor event during NFT.NYC week, featuring an interactive analog video synthesis demonstration by LoVid.
Followed by a Q&A with directors and producers and special guest Matthew Modine Program includes: Burner Face Dir. John Gauntt. 2023, 2 mins. U.S. Composed by a team of three creatives + Midjourney AI, this ...
Followed by a Q&A with directors and producers Program includes: Homologies Dir. Bryerly Long. 2023, 12 mins. U.S. In the near future, parents who have paid to genetically enhance their children wonder if they have ...
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.
We'll celebrate the 35th anniversary of The Jim Henson Hour with a screening of two programs from the series directed by Jim Henson himself. Introduced by Jim Henson Legacy President Craig Shemin on April 6 and 7.
Presented as part of the 16th Annual ReelAbilities Film Festival: New York on April 6, this powerful documentary follows Feliza, Mareele, Rose Mery, and Miguel as they spearhead a movement to advocate for the rights of people with disabilities.
Glazer has made a film about the Holocaust unlike any other, using obliqueness and the abstraction of terror to speak to the ways in which we all shield our eyes from evil. Screens 3/29–4/6.
Followed by a Q&A with directors and producers and special guest star Arnold Chun (Man in the High Castle) Program includes: Chaska Dir. Liz Guarraccino. 2024, 2 mins. U.S. How would you feel if you ...
Followed by a Q&A with director Patrick Biesemans and producer Noah Lang. Dir. Patrick Biesemans, 2023, US, 95 mins. A scientist uses groundbreaking technology to communicate with the deceased. Once he is through the looking ...
We'll celebrate the 35th anniversary of The Jim Henson Hour with a screening of two programs from the series directed by Jim Henson himself. Introduced by Jim Henson Legacy President Craig Shemin on April 6 and 7.
Followed by a Q&A with directors and producers Program includes: Suppressus Dir. Grant Jones. 2022,19 mins. U.S. Two neuroscientists work to develop a device that regenerates memories blocked out by dissociative amnesia. Reverie Dir. Kelli ...
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.
Followed by a Q&A with director Gerrit Van Woudenberg Dir. Gerrit Van Woudenberg. 2023, 87 mins. Canada. A reclusive physicist builds a particle accelerator in his garage and embarks on a quest to understand the ...
Hal Hartley’s rowdy, hilarious literary saga about a depraved wanderer who inspires a shy sanitation worker to write a book-length poem is an unlikely ode to bohemian life. Screening 4/7.
Followed by a Q&A with director William Kresch and producer Eric Reitz Dir. William Kresch. 2023, 94 mins. U.S. After fleeing their pandemic-ravaged city for the safety of a remote family cabin, a physically and ...
This edition of the international gathering showcasing orphan films (neglected audiovisual media) will respond to the theme(s) of work and/or play, broadly considered.
Museum of the Moving Image is teaming up with NYU-ITP to bring you a 3D printing workshop. This session is open to teens and adults alike.
James Cameron has re-released his beloved underwater sci-fi adventure in a newly restored, remastered version of the acclaimed extended director’s cut screens 5/3 and 5/5.
From magical realism to sharp critiques of the present, these short films invite us into the alluring world of contemporary Arab cinema, an industry as diverse as the 22 countries that make up the Arab world.
The audacious blend of Midwestern understatement and violent mayhem in Joel and Ethan Coen's Fargo is perfectly captured by Carter Burwell’s lean but unforgettable score. On 4/14, the Oscar-nominated composer will appear in person to discuss his score and his career.
This documentary depicts a secretive matriarchal religious order’s insidious influence on three generations of women in the Chehab family in Lebanon. A Q&A with producer and editor Fahd Ahmed will follow the screening on 4/14.
