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The 15th First Look Festival, featuring New York premieres of innovative international cinema, runs April 23\u2013May 3\nHoliday hours: Museum open daily April 2\u201312, during spring recess for NYC Public Schools<\/p>\n
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The 15th First Look Festival, featuring New York premieres of innovative international cinema, runs April 23\u2013May 3
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Astoria, New York, March 31, 2026\u00a0\u2014\u00a0This April, Museum of the Moving Image welcomes families during spring recess with added hours and a focus on classic video arcade games; honors\u00a0Marilyn Monroe\u00a0with a weekend screening program; presents the 15th edition of\u00a0First Look Festival, MoMI\u2019s annual showcase of innovative, new cinema; celebrates the winners of the\u00a0Sloan Student Prizes; hosts\u00a0Richard Linklater\u00a0and\u00a0Eric Schlosser\u00a0for a 20th anniversary screening of\u00a0Fast Food Nation, and other special screenings; and continues with a robust slate of free\u00a0Open Worlds\u00a0events including an artist talk with\u00a0Sarah Friend\u00a0and\u00a0Yehwan Song, selections from the\u00a0Ceres Food Film Festival, and\u00a0The Precarious Body, featuring a conversation with artist\u00a0Panteha Abareshi, radiologist\u00a0Lily Offit, and scholar\u00a0Elisabeth Sherman, presented in conjunction with the exhibition\u00a0Overexposed: Art, Technology, and the Body.
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\nDuring spring recess, April 2\u201312, families can play the classic \u201980s video arcade games\u00a0Centipede\u00a0and\u00a0Pole Position\u00a0in our Fox Amphitheater, with an afternoon tournament on April 4; catch a weekday matinee of Albert Lamorisse\u2019s\u00a0The Red Balloon\u00a0(1956) and\u00a0White Mane\u00a0(1953), April 6\u201310; and drop into two different media-making spaces,\u00a0Media Game Lab, within our core exhibition\u00a0Behind the Screen, and\u00a0Moving Image Studio, a free ground-floor space for all ages. For the arcade games, game tokens are available for 25 cents per play. Plus, in the galleries,\u00a0The Jim Henson Exhibition\u00a0and\u00a0Behind the Screen\u00a0offer fun, educational experiences for all ages; inside\u00a0Tut\u2019s Fever Movie Palace, an artwork by Red Grooms and Lysiane Luong, visitors can see three delightful animated shorts by the legendary animation director\u00a0Yuri Norstein, including his masterpiece\u00a0Hedgehog in the Fog.<\/p>\n
The\u00a015th First Look Festival\u00a0opens April 23 with the U.S. premiere of James N. Kienitz Wilkins\u2019s\u00a0The Misconceived\u00a0and closes with the North American premiere of Isabel Sandoval\u2019s\u00a0Moonglow, framing a lineup of 21 features and experimental shorts programs. Special showcase screenings include New York premieres of Rachel Lambert\u2019s\u00a0Carousel, starring Chris Pine and Jenny Slate; Ildik\u00f3 Enyedi\u2019s\u00a0Silent Friend, starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai; and Ramzi Bashour\u2019s\u00a0Hot Water. The Museum will also present the world premiere of Ken Jacobs\u2019s\u00a0A Date with Shirley, as part of a citywide celebration of the legendary avant-garde filmmaker who died in October. First Look 2026 Presenting Sponsor is MUBI. Marilyn Monroe in New York \u00a0 SCREENING AND LIVE EVENT FREE COMMUNITY EVENT SCREENING AND LIVE EVENT
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\nAlso among special film events, the Museum presents screenings of\u00a0In Jackson Heights, in memory of the great documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman who died in March (April 5); the classic comedy\u00a0Horse Feathers\u00a0accompanied by a live taping of the\u00a0Marx Brothers Council Podcast\u00a0(April 12);\u00a0The Sound of Music, in a singalong version (April 12); Jim Henson\u2019s\u00a0Labyrinth\u00a0on the occasion of its 40th anniversary (April 18 & 19) (materials from the film are on view in\u00a0The Jim Henson Exhibition); and the big-screen experimental film program\u00a0Earthly Delights: Historic Psychedelia, Animation, and Avant-Garde Films in Large Format\u00a0(April 18).
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\nThe Museum continues its Accessibility programs: on the last Saturday of each month,\u00a0Touch Object Experience<\/a>\u00a0invites visitors to engage with select objects, including a projector, 8mm camera, textiles, and face molds, to learn about the story of the moving image in a new way; and every Saturday, through April 25, 10:00\u201311:30 a.m.,\u00a0free Access Mornings<\/a>\u00a0offer a dedicated hour before the Museum opens to the wider public, for families with children on the autism spectrum to explore exhibitions and participate in workshops in a sensory-friendly environment.
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\nUnless noted, all programs take place at Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave, Astoria, NY 11106. Screenings are presented in the Sumner M. Redstone Theater and\/or the Celeste and Armand Bartos Screening Room. Schedule and tickets are available at\u00a0movingimage.org<\/a>.
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\nSchedule is subject to change.\u00a0Additional programs will be added as they are confirmed.
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\nOpen Worlds 2026
\nOngoing
\nThis year-round initiative offers free access to the Museum\u2019s ground floor to the public accompanied by a series of free community events that spark curiosity with explorations of the moving image across platforms\u2014gaming, film, television, immersive experiences, and emerging technologies. April programs include\u00a0Arcade Classics:\u00a0Centipede\u00a0and\u00a0Pole Position\u00a0(Apr. 2\u201312),\u00a0Coin-Op Clash:\u00a0Centipede\u00a0Tournament\u00a0(Apr. 4),\u00a0Artist Talk:\u00a0Lick Pic\u00a0with Sarah Friend and Yehwan Song\u00a0(Apr. 11),\u00a0Food, Closeup: Ceres Food Film Festival Shorts\u00a0(Apr. 12),\u00a0Open Worlds: Science: The Precarious Body\u00a0(Apr. 17), and\u00a0Story Studio: For Our Mothers\u00a0(May 2).\u00a0Series info<\/a>
\nProgrammatic support for Open Worlds 2026 is provided by the NY City Council, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Bank of America, the William Fox Jr. Foundation, NYSCA, and the Office of the Queensborough President. Open Worlds: Science programs are made possible by the Simons Foundation.
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\n2001: The Year, Not the Movie
\nFebruary 14\u2013April 11
\nMoMI honors the watershed year 2001 with a major screening series featuring more than 30 titles, all of which released or premiered in the United States that year. April titles include\u00a0What Time Is It There?\u00a0(Dir.\u00a0Tsai Ming-liang. 35mm\u00a0print\u00a0courtesy of UCLA\u00a0Film & Television Archive),\u00a0Millennium Mambo\u00a0(Dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien),\u00a0Trouble Every Day\u00a0(Dir. Claire Denis. 35mm print courtesy of The Film Desk),\u00a0Waking Life\u00a0(Dir. Richard Linklater. 35mm),\u00a0Donnie Darko\u00a0(Dir. Richard Kelly),\u00a0The Lady and the Duke\u00a0(Dir. Eric Rohmer. 35mm),\u00a0That Old Dream That Moves\u00a0(Dir. Alain Guiraudie),\u00a0Hedwig and the Angry Inch\u00a0(Dir. John Cameron Mitchell. 35mm).\u00a0Press release<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Series info<\/a>
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\nFamily Matinees:\u00a0The Red Balloon\u00a0and\u00a0White Mane
\nApril 6\u201310, daily at 1:00 p.m.
\nAlbert Lamorisse\u2019s Oscar-winning 1956 masterpiece\u00a0The Red Balloon\u00a0is one of the most enchanting and beloved children’s films of all time. A young boy finds a stray balloon; the two soon become inseparable as the boy follows the balloon through the streets of Paris. With its rich colors and exquisite visuals,\u00a0The Red Balloon\u00a0is a magical experience on the big screen. Screens with Lamorisse\u2019s 1953 short\u00a0White Mane,\u00a0in which a gang of ranchers try to capture and tame the magnificent leader of a herd of wild horses, but only Folco, a young fisherman, is able to ride him.\u00a0White Mane\u00a0won numerous awards upon its release, including the Short Film Palme d’Or at the 1953 Cannes Film Festival. Recommended for ages 8+.<\/p>\n
\nApril 11\u201312
\nOn the occasion of Marilyn Monroe\u2019s centenary, the Museum presents a selection of the eternal movie star\u2019s films set in New York City, including\u00a0The Seven-Year Itch,\u00a0How to Marry a Millionaire, and the rarely shown\u00a0Don\u2019t Bother to Knock. As part of this weekend, the Museum will also highlight the work of legendary photographer and lifelong New Yorker Sam Shaw, whose vibrant images of Monroe charted the actress throughout her career. Shaw took the iconic shot of Monroe standing over the subway grate in New York City. To celebrate this relationship, ACC Art Books published the beautiful volume\u00a0Dear Marilyn: The Unseen Letters and Photographs\u00a0by Sam Shaw. Through Shaw\u2019s words and photographs,\u00a0Dear Marilyn\u00a0offers newly discovered correspondence and never-before-seen, digitally remastered photographs from the original 1940s\u20131960s archival material, from behind the scenes of\u00a0The Seven-Year Itch\u00a0to candid images of her on the streets of New York and the beach in Amagansett. On April 11, Melissa Stevens, Shaw\u2019s granddaughter, joins film scholar Imogen Sara Smith (The Criterion Collection) for a special conversation about the myth, the image, and the reality of Marilyn Monroe.\u00a0Series info<\/a>
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\nFirst Look 2026
\nApril 23\u2013May 3
\nThe\u00a015th First Look Festival\u00a0opens April 23 with the U.S. premiere of James N. Kienitz Wilkins\u2019s\u00a0The Misconceived\u00a0and closes with the North American premiere of Isabel Sandoval\u2019s\u00a0Moonglow, framing a lineup of 21 features and experimental shorts programs. Special showcase screenings include New York premieres of Rachel Lambert\u2019s\u00a0Carousel, starring Chris Pine and Jenny Slate; Ildik\u00f3 Enyedi\u2019s\u00a0Silent Friend, starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai; and Ramzi Bashour\u2019s\u00a0Hot Water. The Museum will also present the world premiere of Ken Jacobs\u2019s\u00a0A Date with Shirley, as part of a citywide celebration of the legendary avant-garde filmmaker who died in October. Filmmakers appearing in person include Wilkins, Sandoval, Lambert, Enyedi, Bashour, Kunsang Kyirong (100 Sunset), Erin Espelie (Ideas of Order), Ashley Connor and Joe Stankus (It Goes That Quick), Robb Moss (The Bend in the River), Itab Azzam and Jack Macinnes (One in a Million), Charlie Birns (The Whole World Is a Lie), Rachael J. Morrison (Joybubbles), Anthony Svatek (Humboldt USA), and Hansel Porras Garcia (Tropical Park). First Look 2026\u2019s Presenting Sponsor is MUBI.\u00a0Press release<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Series info and tickets<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nOverexposed: Art, Technology, and the Body
\nMarch 14, 2026\u2013January 3, 2027
\nOverexposed: Art, Technology, and the Body\u00a0traces how innovations like cinema and X\u2011ray imaging radically transformed the way we see\u2014and understand\u2014the human form. Bringing together more than a century of research films and contemporary artworks by 16 artists, the exhibition explores how looking beneath the skin has shaped ideas about science, power, care, and identity.
\nOrganized by Sonia Shechet Epstein, Curator of Science and Technology.
\nLead support for Overexposed was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Additional generous support was provided by Romy Cohen, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Elaine\u00a0Goldman, May & Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, and Doug Pugh.\u00a0Press release<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Exhibition info<\/a>
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\nIcarus Proudbottom\u2019s Typing Party
\nMarch 26\u2013August 23
\nFree to play in the Museum lobby
\nTyping Party\u00a0is part of Holy Wow Studio\u2019s \u201cIcarus Proudbottom\u201d series. Beginning in 2013, the indie game series began borrowing the familiar structure of typing tutors, such as\u00a0Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing\u00a0and\u00a0Mario Teaches Typing, while pushing the educational format toward competition and absurdity. Debuting at MoMI in 2016 as part of IndieCade East,\u00a0Typing Party\u00a0takes the form of a social arcade game comprising nine competitive minigames, played on two keyboards mounted side by side in a custom cabinet. The two keyboards are central to the game\u2019s character: slightly out of place within arcade conventions, yet immediately legible to most players; they turn a familiar act into something social, rhythmic, and unexpectedly challenging. Presented in collaboration with Wonderville.\u00a0Exhibit info<\/a>
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\nYuri Norstein: Three Tail Tales
\nMarch 5\u2013May 31
\nThis screening program is presented inside\u00a0Tut\u2019s Fever Movie Palace, an artwork and working theater by Red Grooms and Lysiane Luong; part of the core exhibition\u00a0Behind the Screen.\u00a0Three short films by renowned master of cut-out animation Yuri Norstein tell captivating and endearing stories of friendship, romance, and the wonders of nature. The films include:\u00a0The Fox and the Hare\u00a0(1973, 12 mins.),\u00a0The Heron and the Crane\u00a0(1974, 10 mins.), and\u00a0Hedgehog in the Fog\u00a0(1975, 11 mins.). Recently restored by Deaf Crocodile as part of their collection\u00a0Treasures of Soviet Animation, they showcase Norstein\u2019s aesthetic range and sly humor and feature a special technique in which he uses multiple glass planes to create depth. Organized by Emily Greenberg, Film and Public Programs Manager.\u00a0Exhibition info<\/a>
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\nStories and Set Designs for The Sopranos
\nFebruary 14\u2013May 31
\nIn the Amphitheater Gallery
\nThe exhibition centers materials that trace how the series\u2019 narrative and visual worlds were established. Drawing from David Chase\u2019s personal archive, the exhibition features scripts, notes, and research that document the development of the celebrated series\u2019 story arcs and character trajectories as it moved from a pilot into the first season. It also examines the design of the four principal sites where the series\u2019 central action unfolds\u2014Dr. Melfi\u2019s office, the Soprano home, the Bada Bing strip club, and Satriale\u2019s Pork Store\u2014through a presentation of concept art, construction drawings, and ground plans by production designers Edward Pisoni (pilot) and Dean Taucher (season one). Organized by Barbara Miller, Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs.
\nThis exhibition was made possible with the support of Lisa and Richard Plepler.
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\nLick Pic
\nCollaborative work by Sarah Friend and Yehwan Song
\nFebruary 19\u2013May 10
\nOn the Herbert S. Schlosser Media Wall and in the Museum lobby.\u00a0Presented in partnership with the Tezos Foundation.\u00a0
\nFriend and Song tether the contemporary art market, the Museum\u2019s collection, and screen dependence through shared themes of desire and possession. Images from the permanent collection rotate on the lobby wall each time activity occurs on the contemporary marketplace Objkt. The collection image is shown beside hallucinated variants that produce an uncanny, dizzying effect: which is the true object of desire? A nearby installation of robotic tongue sculptures mounted to iPhones and iPads, devices already charged with erogenous energy through acts like habitual stroking, act as crude symbols of lust; each tongue swipe affects the image on the screen. Organized by Regina Harsanyi, Associate Curator of Media Arts.\u00a0Exhibition info<\/a>
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\nLu Yang:\u00a0The Great Adventure of Material World\u00a0
\nExtended through May 3\u00a0
\nIn the Jane Henson Amphitheater\u00a0
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\nThe Jim Henson Exhibition
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\nBehind the Screen
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\nHIGHLIGHTED SCREENINGS AND EVENTS
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\nArcade Classics:\u00a0Centipede\u00a0and\u00a0Pole Position
\nApril 2\u201312
\nNew York City kids on spring recess and their families can play\u00a0Centipede\u00a0and\u00a0Pole Position,\u00a0two vintage arcade games from the Museum\u2019s collection. Innovative for their use of track balls and steering wheels, these original 1980s Atari cabinet games are presented here for new players to enjoy. Part of Open Worlds 2026; 25 cents per play.\u00a0Event info<\/a>
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\nMoving Image Studio
\nApril 2\u201312, 12:30\u20135:30 p.m. (except for Sat. Apr. 11)
\nMoving Image Studio is a drop-in media-making space where visitors can experiment and create media as well as arts and crafts, inspired by characters and subjects featured in the Museum\u2019s galleries and screening programs. Facilitated by Museum educators, visitors can try green-screen, create stop-motion animation, build in virtual reality, and draw whimsical characters from films, video games, and TV shows. Free.
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\nCoin-Op Clash:\u00a0Centipede\u00a0Tournament
\nSaturday, April 4, 2:00-6:00 p.m.
\nJoin MoMI\u2019s video game tournament, featuring\u00a0Centipede! Battle it out to claim the high score on an original cabinet of Atari\u2019s 1981 arcade hit. Sign up in advance for free play in the tournament. Limited drop-in space available. Part of Open Worlds 2026; free with RSVP.\u00a0Event info<\/a>
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\nIn Jackson Heights
\nSunday, April 5, 1:00 p.m.
\nDir. Frederick Wiseman. 2015, 190 mins. The teeming diversity of Jackson Heights, and the larger landscape of Queens itself, is the subject of Frederick Wiseman\u2019s acclaimed nonfiction epic, presented on the Museum big screen in tribute to the director, who died in February. As with the finest of his films, Wiseman has created a kaleidoscopic and novelistic view of his subject, here showing the many ways that people form smaller communities within a larger, chaotic world.\u00a0Reverse Shot\u00a0crowned it as the best film of 2015 in its annual critics\u2019 poll. Part of Reverse Shot Presents.\u00a0Event info<\/a>
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\nSPECIAL EVENT
\nSloan Science and Film Reception and Celebration
\nThursday, April 9, 6:30 p.m.
\nMuseum of the Moving Image partners with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to celebrate the best science-themed screenplays from graduate film schools nationwide. Join them for a reception with food and drink, a script reading, and Q&A with journalist Evan Ratliff, on an evening to celebrate the 2025 Sloan Student Prize winners: Nora Kaye (Brooklyn College) and Quinn Spicker (AFI). Free with RSVP.\u00a0Event info<\/a>
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\nThe Seven-Year Itch
\nFollowed by a conversation with Melissa Shaw and Imogen Sara Smith
\nSaturday, April 11, 1:00 p.m.
\nDir. Billy Wilder. 1955, 105 mins. U.S. DCP. With Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell. Envelope-pusher Billy Wilder turned a potential hot-button comedy about possible adultery (a Production Code no-no) into an enormous box-office success and gave Marilyn Monroe one of her most lasting, beloved roles. With its ultimate married-guy fantasy dilemma,\u00a0The Seven-Year Itch\u00a0remains one of Wilder\u2019s most delightful comic confections, and Monroe brings her customary combination of sexiness, warmth, and vulnerability.
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\nArtist Talk:\u00a0Lick Pic
\nSaturday, April 11, 3:00\u20134:00 p.m.
\nSarah Friend and Yehwan Song join Associate Curator of Media Arts Regina Harsanyi for a conversation on Lick Pic, the current Schlosser Media Wall commission on view in the Museum lobby, presented in partnership with the Tezos Foundation. The work puts collecting, commerce, and screen dependence in the same bed through shared themes of desire and possession. Triggered by sales on Objkt, images of objects from MoMI\u2019s collection rotate alongside three fictional variants, testing what counts as the real object of desire. Part of Open Worlds 2026; free with RSVP.\u00a0Event info<\/a>
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\nHorse Feathers\u00a0+ Marx Brothers Council Podcast Live
\nSunday, April 12, 12:00 p.m.
\nDir. Norman Z. McLeod. 1932, 68 mins. U.S. DCP. In one of his most riotous roles, Groucho Marx plays the President of Huxley College, with Harpo his secret weapon in a football rivalry against Darwin University.\u00a0Horse Feathers\u00a0is among the Marx Brothers\u2019 funniest and most scathing attacks on authority, featuring some of their greatest songs, including \u201cI\u2019m Against It\u201d and \u201cEveryone Says I Love You.\u201d Following the screening, join the Marx Brothers Council Podcast as they record an episode with a live audience.\u00a0Event info<\/a><\/p>\n
\nFood, Closeup: Ceres Food Film Festival Shorts
\nSunday, April 12, 2:30 p.m.
\nSee a slate of food-focused short films presented in partnership with the Ceres Food Film Festival, one of the leading international film festivals dedicated to exploring the multifaceted role of food in our lives. Followed by a conversation with Michael Robinov, Co-Founder & CEO of Farm to People, and moderated by Qiana Mickie, Executive Director of the NYC Mayor\u2019s Office of Urban Agriculture. Ceres friends at Slow Food NYC will be tabling for a chance for guests to connect with their work, and Brooklyn Granary and Farm to People will offer tastings. Attendees will get a 10% discount off beer, wine, and cocktails at Mon Amour caf\u00e9 in the Museum lobby. Part of Open Worlds 2026; free, RSVP recommended.\u00a0Event info<\/a>
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\nThe Sound of Music\u00a0(Singalong Version)
\nSunday, April 12, 3:00 p.m.
\nDir. Robert Wise. 1965, 172 mins. U.S. DCP. With Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer. Robert Wise\u2019s spectacular adaptation of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway show is one of cinema\u2019s greatest musical extravaganzas. Julie Andrews gives an iconic performance as a novice nun whose life changes when sent to care for the children of a handsome military captain (Plummer) as the world anxiously awaits the start of World War II.\u00a0The Sound of Music\u00a0bursts with unforgettable songs and glorious CinemaScope images shot on location in Salzburg, Austria. Winner of five Oscars, including Best Picture. Part of Song & Dance.\u00a0Event info<\/a>
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\nThe Precarious Body
\nAn Open Worlds: Science program
\nFriday, April 17, 6:00 p.m.
\nShowcasing the art and medical imaging technologies featured in the current exhibition\u00a0Overexposed: Art, Technology, and the Body<\/a>, artist Panteha Abareshi, whose work is included in the exhibition, will give a talk considering the relationship between the sick and\/or disabled body and its able-bodied spectators; followed by a panel discussion about the ways that personal health, medical imaging, and creative inspiration collide, with radiologist Lily Offit in conversation with Abareshi and\u00a0Overexposed\u00a0catalog co-editor Elisabeth Sherman, moderated by the exhibition\u2019s curator Sonia Epstein, MoMI\u2019s Curator of Science & Technology. The event will be followed by a reception. Open Worlds: Science, returning for another full season April-October 2026, is supported by the Simons Foundation. Free admission, RSVP required.<\/p>\n
\nHand-Colored Film Workshop
\nSaturday, April 18, 12:00\u20133:00 p.m.
\nIn the spirit of the experimental filmmakers featured in the same-day screening program\u00a0Earthly Delights experimental film program<\/a>\u00a0(at 3:00 p.m.), visitors are welcome to try their hand at \u201cdrawn-on-film\u201d animation, led by teaching artists Rachel Guma and Alice Cohen. All materials provided, including 16mm film and a viewer to see the results of your work. Part of Open Worlds 2026; free, RSVP requested.\u00a0Event info<\/a>
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\nEarthly Delights: Historic Psychedelia, Animation, and Avant-Garde Films in Large Format
\nSaturday, April 18, 3:00 p.m.
\nExperimental and avant-garde filmmakers have historically been associated with smaller formats: 16mm, 8mm and Super-8mm, VHS tapes, camera phones. But there is also a legacy of film artists who have worked in larger, industrial-sized formats. In this special program organized and hosted by Andy Ditzler and Gregory Zinman, the films come at the large-format medium from different angles, but all are concerned with new visions that foreground extant technologies of the moving image. Whether it\u2019s\u00a0Stan Brakhage\u00a0painting directly on the filmstrip,\u00a0Norman McLaren\u00a0hand-printing his musical score directly on the soundtrack,\u00a0Jennifer West\u2019s film frames dunked in liquid nitrogen, or the high-tech psychedelia of\u00a0Robert Abel\u2019s 1970s television commercials, these films are all pleasurably overwhelming in the material sense. Several of the selections will screen in 35mm or 35mm Cinemascope. Experience them in the Museum\u2019s glorious Redstone Theater.\u00a0Event info<\/a>
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\nLabyrinth:\u00a040th Anniversary Screening
\nApril 18 and 19, 12:30 p.m. each day
\nDir. Jim Henson. 1986, 101 mins. With Jennifer Connelly, David Bowie. In order to save her baby brother, who has been captured by the Goblin King, teenager Sarah must find her way through a magical labyrinth. Rich with elaborate set pieces, including a castle inspired by M.C. Escher, and a witty and fantastical script by Monty Python member Terry Jones, Henson\u2019s beloved fantasy film is a stunning visual achievement. In a role that launched a million disquieting crushes, a perfectly cast Bowie plays the teasing, tempting seducer whom Sarah must both want and reject in order to learn the labyrinth\u2019s lessons. Part of Jim Henson’s World.\u00a0Event info<\/a>
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\nFast Food Nation
\n20th Anniversary Screening with Richard Linklater and Eric Schlosser in person
\nSaturday, April 18, 5:30 p.m.
\nDir. Richard Linklater. 2006, 116 mins. With Greg Kinnear, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Wilmer Valderrama, Ashley Johnson, Bruce Willis, Ethan Hawke. Twenty years on, Richard Linklater\u2019s sprawling, multilayered inquiry into capitalism\u2019s effect on American life is more relevant than ever. It was never just about the meat: inspired by Upton Sinclair\u2019s classic muckraker\u00a0The Jungle, Linklater and Eric Schlosser, adapting his own revelatory best-seller, construct a film about the ever-widening ripples of our monopolized corporate culture and its impact on the individual, from the exploited immigrant laborer (Moreno, Valderrama) to the hapless tentative whistle blower (Kinnear) to the low-wage teen turned wannabe activist (Johnson). All are united\u2014or vertically integrated\u2014in their association with the Mickey\u2019s hamburger chain, a fast-food behemoth modeled on you\u2013know\u2013who. Unceremoniously released and underappreciated,\u00a0Fast Food Nation\u00a0remains one of the most clear-eyed American films about our complicity in a sociopolitical machine that\u2019s only gotten stronger. Followed by a discussion with Linklater and Schlosser. Part of Writers\u2019 Room.\u00a0Event info<\/a>
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\nKyuka: Before Summer\u2019s End
\nSunday, April 19, 3:00 p.m.
\nDir. Kostis Charamountanis. 2024, 105 mins. A single father takes his young adult twin son and daughter on a boating holiday to Poros, secretly planning for them to meet the birth mother who abandoned them when they were very young. Winner of two 2025 Hellenic Film Academy Awards. Presented in association with the Hellenic Film Society USA, a dynamic cultural organization devoted to the presentation of outstanding Greek films in the United States. Part of Always on Sunday: Greek Film Series\u00a0Series info<\/a>
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\nThe Misconceived
\nOpening Night of First Look Festival with filmmakers in person + reception
\nThursday, April 23, 7:00 p.m.
\nDir. James N. Kienitz Wilkins. 2026, 88 mins. U.S. With Jesse Wakeman, John Magary, Jess Barbagallo, J. Dixon Byrne, Emily Davis, Rachel Lin, Callie Hernandez, Theodore Bouloukos, Paul Dallas. A social satirist whose work rejects fixed genres and forms, James N. Kienitz Wilkins (The Plagiarists) offers entertaining, if slippery critiques of the creative class, and his latest, which the director calls, somewhat beguilingly, \u201ca tragicomedy about Millennials in crisis,\u201d is a merciless yet provocative take on contemporary culture and the state of the \u201cindie\u201d film itself. Co-written by Robin Schavoir,\u00a0The Misconceived\u00a0centers on a forty-something carpenter who never cracked the code to become a movie director and whose new job, renovating the vacation home of a more successful college friend, triggers a series of confrontations and realizations about his own dwindled creativity and persistent economic precarity\u2014rendered using motion capture and 3D animation via a computer graphics game engine.\u00a0U.S. premiere.\u00a0Event info<\/a><\/p>\n
\nCarousel
\nNew York premiere with director Rachel Lambert in person
\nFriday, April 24, 6:30 p.m.
\nDir. Rachel Lambert. 2026, 103 mins. U.S. With Chris Pine, Jenny Slate, Sam Waterston, Katey Sagal, Jessica Harper, Abby Ryder Fortson, H\u00e9l\u00e8ne York. With her discerning visual sense and gratifyingly unsentimental approach, filmmaker Rachel Lambert brings a genuine emotional tangibility to her tale of two fortysomethings embarking on a tentative, rekindled affair amidst the unforgiving churn of everyday life. Noah (Chris Pine) is a divorced doctor and single parent of an anxiety-ridden teenager; Rebecca (Jenny Slate), his high-school sweetheart, has temporarily relocated back to town to assist her aging parents. Together they must navigate midlife disappointments, regrets, and fears, while balancing their own needs and desires. Beautifully performed with psychological clarity by its entire cast, especially Pine and Slate, and shot in Cleveland with a distinct sense of place, Lambert\u2019s follow-up to her memorably melancholic 2023 film\u00a0Sometimes I Think About Dying\u00a0is a resonant portrait of people trying to overcome life\u2019s uncertainties. Part of First Look 2026.\u00a0Event info<\/a>
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\nA Date with Shirley
\nSunday, April 26, 1:00 p.m.
\nDir. Ken Jacobs. 2025, 48 mins. U.S. This colorful and cubist record of a Chinatown haircut is the final long-form work by the great avant-garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs, who died last October. As with his first film,\u00a0Orchard Street\u00a0(1955), made 70 years earlier,\u00a0A Date with Shirley\u00a0is a slice of New York City life that transforms urban energy into cinematic spectacle. Three cameras capture the action, one operated by Ken as he is having his Einstein-ian locks shorn, and the others by his children, Aza and Nisi. A loving and poignant family scene, the film is also a dazzling work of art\u2014and a tribute to a fine barber whose phone number is offered in the credits. The screening, part of a citywide celebration of Ken Jacobs, will be followed by a book launch event for the Film Desk reprinted edition of\u00a0Films That Tell Time: A Ken Jacobs Retrospective, the catalogue for his landmark 1989 show at MoMI.\u00a0World premiere. Part of First Look 2026.\u00a0Event info<\/a><\/p>\n
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