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In 2017, journalist Shiori Itō publicly accused a prominent media executive (and associate of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe) of rape, then weathered a cruel and intolerant backlash. Her book about her experience has been credited with sparking Japan’s #MeToo movement.
The documentary that Amazon likely wouldn’t want you to see, this dynamic behind-the-scenes look at the efforts of Amazon warehouse workers in Staten Island is a master class in nonfiction narrative filmmaking. Directors Brett Story and Stephen Maing will appear in person!
From Academy Award–nominated director Joshua Oppenheimer comes a poignant and deeply human musical about a family that survived the end of the world. Free with RSVP!
Arriving three summers after Star Wars permanently altered the trajectory of popular cinema, The Empire Strikes Back continued the saga and diversified the brand.
In connection with Recording the Ride: The Rise of Street-Style Skate Videos, MoMI presents a free punk show featuring the cyberpunk, hardcore music of Automat0m! As seen in the soundtrack selections of many skate videos in the exhibition, the fast tempos of punk music were an essential part of ’80s and ’90s skate culture and influenced the editing of skate videos.
In one of the year’s most remarkable breakout performances, Lily Collias plays wise teenager Sam, who has been invited along with her divorced dad and his best friend on a weekend camping trip in upstate New York. Moving, unsettling, and ultimately empowering, the film was a breakout of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. Director India Donaldson will appear in person!
In conjunction with MoMI’s exhibition Recording the Ride: The Rise of Street-Style Skate Videos, on 12/6 the New York–based artist/filmmaker Simon Liu will present a performative lecture reflecting on his years growing up as a skateboarder and videographer in Hong Kong.
One of Akira Kurosawa’s greatest films, this spellbinding, Oscar-winning Soviet-Japanese coproduction follows a Russian cartographer at the turn of the twentieth century as he surveys a region in the Far East of Russia. Screens 12/7 and 12/15.
In this kinetic and percussive essay film, director Johan Grimonprez revisits and reanimates a moment when African politics and American jazz collided, around the 1961 assassination of Congo’s leader Patrice Lumumba. Encore screening 12/22.
The Eyeworks Experimental Animation Screening Series is an annual event focusing on experimental animation, with screening events in Chicago, LA, and NY each fall.
The official Palestinian submission to the 2025 Academy Award for Best International Film, From Ground Zero is an anthology project comprised of 22 short films created by filmmakers from Gaza.
The Eyeworks Experimental Animation Screening Series is an annual event focusing on experimental animation, with screening events in Chicago, LA, and NY each fall.