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Open Worlds

Ongoing

Open Worlds, starting May 18, 2024, is a new initiative of Museum of the Moving Image, an accessible, 15,500-square-foot, climate-controlled, WiFi-enabled community resource for visitors of all ages looking to convene, find creative inspiration, learn about and experience new media technologies, or participate in many diverse programming selections. 

Boasting one of the largest free community spaces in Queens, MoMI will make Open Worlds available during all operating hours. Its offerings will include a wide range of free community and technology-focused programming spanning themes of content creation, Pride, accessibility, science on screen, special effects, video gaming, and much more. 

Weekend programs will resume in 2025, but our first-floor spaces remain open and free for the community year-round.

 

Programmatic support provided by the William Fox, Jr. Foundation. 

A logo of a film reel, with the words William Fox Jr. Foundation beneath it.

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Past Films in Series

A group of people in Halloween costumes stand merrily in the Museum of the Moving Image lobby in the evening.

MoMI Halloween Party 
Two men and a woman sit at a white table with a dark curtain behind them. The men on the left wear black T-shirts, the woman on the right wears a bright yellow floral dress. The man in the middle, wearing a ballcap gives the thumbs up.

Voting Rights Trivia 
Still from an animated film shows two characters butting heads across a lightnig bolt separating them

Yu-Gi-Oh! Day
Three musicians—from left, on drums, bass, and clarinet—perform in a courtyard.

Henson Music in the Courtyard  
Kermit the Frog sings with a banjo in the woods

Swa(m)p Meet: Henson Collectibles Marketplace 
Puppeteer Brian Carson smiles at camera in closeup next to his puppet, the brown rabbit Silly Willy looking at him

Puppeteering at MoMI 
An overhead shot of slightly wrinkled hands shaving green vegetable stalks from one bowl into another.

Behind the Eclipse: Installation + Artist Talk
A young girl and older man sit in director folding chairs while men standing next to them hold colorful tassels up to their heads, as people surrounding them watch.

New York on Location
A woman with curly hair speaks into a mic next to large screen showing small boxes of images from films as part of a trivia game; in the front, the backs of participants heads can be seen looking at the screen.

MoMI Trivia
A DJ in a red jacket points to the sky as he plays over his mix table covered in DJ audio equipment

Bollywood Disco: Talk + Party
A dark-haired man wearing flannel shirt and a serious expression looks directly at us while sitting in front of two large computer monitors displaying film editing software

Effective Effects with Foley Artist Matt Rocker
A figure wearing a Jack O Lantern mask stands in front of a shelf of monster memorabilia and holds monster movie magazines, one featuring Frankenstein's monster and another featuring King Kong.

Toying with the Movies with Mike Drake and Sam Furst
Swirls of blue and purple that look like viscous liquid.

ray ferreira’s An echo wails, whispers an undulating pattern: Video, Artist Talk, and Reception
A fanciful image of a mushroom with a red, white-spotted cap and a human face looks up from the ground.

The Microcosmos of Fungi
Extreme close-ups of brown mushrooms

More than Meets the Eye
Bathed in purple light, two dancers grasp each other's hands and pull on their arms, with their heads down, amidst a black-box space

Everything by Valerie Green/Dance Entropy  
A bald man with a beard smiles and wearing a plaid shirt talks into a microphone

Adapting the Moving Image with Brent Black
In a courtyard lined with trees, four brown-skinned teenage girls in colorful blue shorts and African-colored shirts dance with their arms in the air as a dark-skinned man in white beats on a drum in the middle of them.

Celebrate Juneteenth 2024 Festivities
Jim Henson surrounded by his Fraggle puppet creations, all looking at the camera.

Jim Henson’s Legacy with Karen Falk, Craig Shemin, and Barbara Miller 
Kermit the Frog sings with a banjo in the woods

Henson Music in the Courtyard
Puppeteer Brian Carson smiles at camera in closeup next to his puppet, the brown rabbit Silly Willy looking at him

Puppeteering at MoMI
The words IATSE against a black and white collage of different workers looking at us, from crowds to individuals.

Introducing the Industry with IATSE
The words GAYMER PRIDE against a red brick wall with colorful green and blue bricks scattered about.

NYC Gaymers at MoMI
A woman with curly hair speaks into a mic next to large screen showing small boxes of images from films as part of a trivia game; in the front, the backs of participants heads can be seen looking at the screen.

Summer Blockbuster Movie Trivia
A woman in long dark hair stands against a wall against which computer codes and abstract purple and blue images are projected

Live Code: Real-Time Visual Music Since the 1980s
A square-shaped logo with the words OPEN WORLDS in bright pastel colors that start with pink at the top and gradient into blue by the bottom. In the lower-left corner is the much smaller, square-shaped logo reading the words Museum of the Moving Image. It is hovering over an image of an all-white Museum of the Moving Image lobby.

Open Worlds Opening Day

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