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Thu Jun 11 · all day
Part of MoMI x TAICCA Partnership Sense of Nowhere, 2025 Hsin Hsuan Yeh (b. 1997, Taiwan) Where do we go when we zone out, and how do we find our way back to awareness? Inspired by Taoism, Buddhism, and Jungian psychology, the VR project Sense of Nowhere blurs the line between inner world and outer reality, transforming fragmented thoughts into a tangible experience. A 2D and stop-motion animation director, Yeh crafts a visual world with a rich sonic landscape, inviting the audience to explore the subconscious, piece together hidden clues, and find their way back to the present moment. Visitors can access this 30-minute VR experience in the Museum’s third-floor Media Lab. Organized by guest curator Michaela Ternasky-Holland Presented in collaboration with Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA). Established in June 2019 and supported by the Ministry of Culture, TAICCA is a professional intermediary organization working to facilitate the development of Taiwan’s content industries including film and TV, publishing, pop music, ACG, and more. Learn more at en.taicca.tw.
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Proof As If Proof Were Needed
Thu Jun 11 · all day
Part of MoMI x TAICCA Partnership Proof As If Proof Were Needed, 2025 Ting-Tong Chang (b. 1982, Taiwan) and Blast Theory (United Kingdom) Proof As If Proof Were Needed is an interactive installation that transforms the experience of a relationship’s end into a dreamlike journey through domestic space. Visitors move through the floor plan of a Taiwanese house; as they step into each room, the projected image shifts to reveal that space and fragments of the story it contains. Gradually, a portrait emerges of a couple returning to their abandoned home to gather belongings and confront the secrets they have kept from one another. Organized by guest curator Michaela Ternasky-Holland Presented in collaboration with Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA). Established in June 2019 and supported by the Ministry of Culture, TAICCA is a professional intermediary organization working to facilitate the development of Taiwan’s content industries including film and TV, publishing, pop music, ACG, and more. Learn more at en.taicca.tw.
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Body Double
Fri Jun 12 · 7pm · $17.50 / $12 senior and students / $10 youth (ages 3–17) / free for MoMI members at the Senior/Student level and above
Dir. Brian De Palma. 1984, 114 mins. U.S. DCP. With Craig Wasson, Melanie Griffith, Gregg Henry, Deborah Shelton. Perhaps the litmus test for De Palma aficionados, Body Double uses a Hitchcockian template to dunk things as far into a bucket of sleaze as possible—and re-emerges an improbable work of meta-genius. Milquetoast B-grade L.A. actor Jake (Craig Wasson), whose latest role in a vampire flick has been jeopardized by his petrifying fear of enclosed spaces, is given the seemingly enviable task of housesitting for his buddy Sam’s monumental space-age bachelor pad. While there, he becomes obsessed with Sam’s seductive exhibitionist neighbor, who seems to put on a solo show every night at the same time. Thus begins a highly self-aware, vertiginous descent into extreme voyeurism, madness, double crosses, role playing, early VHS, and the sordid world of burgeoning video porn. Highly controversial in its day, Body Double is at once genuinely scary and very funny, featuring Melanie Griffith’s breakthrough performance as adult film star Holly Body, who ties the twisty narrative together. Tickets: $17.50 / $12 senior and students / $10 youth (ages 3–17) / free for MoMI members at the Senior/Student level and above. There is a $1.50 transaction fee per ticket for all online purchases. The cost of admission may be applied toward a same-day purchase of a membership. Order tickets. Please pick up tickets at the Museum’s admissions desk upon arrival. All seating is general admission.
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Yoga in the Courtyard with The Yoga Room
Sat Jun 13 · 9:45am · Free
Join local studio The Yoga Room for a free class in the beautiful MoMI Courtyard! Museum doors will open at 9:45 a.m. for check-in, and the class will begin at 10:00 a.m. Stick around after the class to enjoy a treat from the MoMI cafe, or visit the Museum galleries. One RSVP per person, bring your own mat. Note that space is first come, first served. In the event of rain, the event will be cancelled. RSVP here
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All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
Sat Jun 13 · 12:30pm · Free
Dir. Adam Curtis. 2011, 180 mins. U.K. DCP. The great British cine-essayist and 21st-century social philosopher Adam Curtis (The Power of Nightmares) is our preeminent contemporary voice on technology, a conspiracy theorist without parallel whose films give alarming structure to our structureless world. In his three-part documentary epic on the growing power imbalance between humans and the technologies we have created, Curtis constructs a narrative about the threat of artificial intelligence. A wide-ranging, discursive look at the way we live now—and how we may live in the future—that touches upon both dystopic and utopian possibilities of cybernetics, All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace is an at-times nightmarish but compelling testament to human artistry in the face of unprecedented change and voluntary self-colonization, using an avalanche of reconstituted archival footage. Part One: Love and Power (60 mins), 12:30 p.m. Part Two: The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts (60 mins), 1:30 p.m. Part Three: The Monkey in the Machine and the Machine in the Monkey (60 mins), 3:30 p.m. Free admission. RSVP here. Tickets will be distributed first-come, first-served on the day of the event.
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Modern Times
Sat Jun 13 · 12:30pm · $17.50 / $12 senior and students / $10 youth (ages 3–17)
Dir. Charles Chaplin. 1936, 87 mins. DCP. With Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman. Chaplin hung up his Little Tramp hat and cane after this unforgettable slapstick classic, in which the iconic character causes chaos at a factory, falls in love with a gamine, perilously roller-skates in a department store, inadvertently joins a union strike, and, in a shocking climax—speaks! Laced with social commentary, Modern Times is a masterpiece of comedy, with one brilliant set piece after another. Tickets: $17.50 / $12 senior and students / $10 youth (ages 3–17) / discounted for MoMI members ($7–$11). There is a $1.50 transaction fee per ticket for all online purchases. The cost of admission may be applied toward a same-day purchase of a membership. Order tickets. Please pick up tickets at the Museum’s admissions desk upon arrival. All seating is general admission.
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Singin’ in the Rain
Sat Jun 13 · 3pm · Silence Please
Dirs. Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly. 1952, 103 mins. DCP. With Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen. Donen and Kelly’s satirical look at Hollywood at the cusp of the sound era is simply the most joyous experience one could ever have going to the movies. With its super-saturated colors, nonstop belly laughs, playlist of repurposed classic tunes, and, of course, dazzling display of fabulous footwork—including O’Connor’s show-stopping “Make ’em Laugh,” Kelly’s iconic titular tune, and the epic, eye-popping “Broadway Melody” number—Singin’ in the Rain is a blast of color and music. Tickets: $17.50 / $12 senior and students / $10 youth (ages 3–17) / free for MoMI members at the Senior/Student level and above. There is a $1.50 transaction fee per ticket for all online purchases. The cost of admission may be applied toward a same-day purchase of a membership. Order tickets. Please pick up tickets at the Museum’s admissions desk upon arrival. All seating is general admission.
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Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tours
Sat Jun 13 · 3pm · $5 per visitor (on top of admission ticket)
On Thursdays and Saturdays, join us for a special guided tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition! The family-oriented tour will be led by a Museum educator, who will guide you through selected galleries of the exhibition (all ages welcome) and will include the interactive stations. Groups will meet in the cafe area at 3:00 p.m. The tour lasts 45 minutes. The tour costs $5 per visitor (on top of admission ticket). There is a $1.50 transaction fee per ticket for all online purchases.
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Inner Worlds and Outer Realities: An Artist Talk on Memory, Thought, and Immersive Storytelling
Sat Jun 13 · 4pm · Free
Museum of the Moving Image and Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA) present artists in conversation about how memories and thoughts can be translated into interactive digital art. Taiwanese artists Ting-Tong Chang and Hsin Hsuan Yeh both manipulate the boundaries between inner thoughts and external realities, but through vastly different interactive lenses. In the installation Proof As If Proof Were Needed, Chang and his collaborators at UK-based Blast Theory explore the shared memories of a relationship’s end, focusing on the social and physical dynamics of people moving through a room. In contrast, Yeh’s VR project, Sense of Nowhere, offers a deeply isolated, meditative experience that examines the intimate dynamic between a single human and a computer headset. In a discussion moderated by guest curator Michaela Ternasky-Holland, they will discuss the personal inspirations behind these works, the technical execution of building these worlds, and what ultimately informed their choices to create within their respective interactive mediums. Experience Proof As If Proof Were Needed and Sense of Nowhere at the Museum from June 12 through September 6, 2026. RSVP for the free artist talk here. Attendees are welcome to attend a reception following the program. Please note to access the art works, general Museum admission is required. About the speakers: Ting-Tong Chang (b.1982, Taiwan) is an artist who lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan and Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Chang focuses on the critical aspects of gaming and art. His projects create immersive gaming experiences that attract both players and art audiences through interactive interfaces designed to engage multiple senses, allowing them to enter poetic narrative environments with simple controls. His works have been exhibited internationally and have received several international awards, including the 2025 SXSW XR Jury’s Special Award for Proof As If Proof Were Needed. Hsin Hsuan Yeh (b.1997, Taiwan) is a 2D and stop-motion animation director exploring experimental narratives and cross-media integration. In 2023, she ventured into virtual reality (VR), seeking new storytelling modes through associative thinking. Her work emphasizes tactile visuals, embodied interaction, and interpretability. Her debut VR project Sense of Nowhere immerses viewers in a universe inspired by various religions and psychology, reflecting on reality, illusion, and interconnectedness. Michaela A. Ternasky-Holland is a Peabody-nominated and Emmy award-winning director who specializes in creating impactful stories using immersive and interactive technology. She is one of the first directors to create and premiere a short film utilizing Open AI’s SORA platform, which screened at Tribeca Festival. Her first original animated series garnered over 2.2 million views on YouTube within a month of release.
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Days of Heaven
Sat Jun 13 · 6pm · $17.50 / $12 senior and students / $10 youth (ages 3–17)
Dir. Terrence Malick. 1978, 94 mins. DCP. With Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard, Linda Manz. A gloriously realized evocation of turn-of-the-century America as lived by itinerant laborers in the wheat fields of the Texas panhandle, Days of Heaven, much like Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane or The Godfather films before it, is that rare thing in Hollywood cinema—a genuine milestone that redefined how film might give access to the historical past, while establishing new roots in the twin traditions of American literature and philosophy. It is also a romantic tragedy viewed from the perspective of a child, as idiosyncratically personal and regionally specific as it is indescribably beautiful. Legendary cinematographer Néstor Almendros was justly awarded an Academy Award for his work on this film. Tickets: $17.50 / $12 senior and students / $10 youth (ages 3–17) / discounted for MoMI members ($7–$11). There is a $1.50 transaction fee per ticket for all online purchases. The cost of admission may be applied toward a same-day purchase of a membership. Order tickets. Please pick up tickets at the Museum’s admissions desk upon arrival. All seating is general admission.
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Moving Image Studio
Sun Jun 14 · 12:30pm
Sundays, 12:30–5:30 p.m. Ground floor Moving 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’s 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 admission.
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Born in Flames
Sun Jun 14 · 12:30pm
Dir. Lizzie Borden. 1983, 80 mins. 35mm. With Honey, Adele Bertei, Jeanne Satterfield, Hillary Hurst, Sheila McLaughlin, Pat Murphy, Marty Pottenger. Lizzie Borden’s kickass feminist, queer dystopia is one of the most fearless and inventive American indies ever made, a postpunk missive that rejects complacency and political compromise. At its thrumming center is a group of working-class women rebels who oppose society’s sexism, homophobia, classism, and racism, which persist despite the fact that they live in a supposed post-revolutionary utopia. Guerilla-style filmmaking at its best, the New York–shot Born in Flames is a film of radical commitment and visual intensity. Tickets: $17.50 / $12 senior and students / $10 youth (ages 3–17) / discounted for MoMI members ($7–$11). There is a $1.50 transaction fee per ticket for all online purchases. The cost of admission may be applied toward a same-day purchase of a membership. Order tickets. Please pick up tickets at the Museum’s admissions desk upon arrival. All seating is general admission.
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The Crowd + Live Musical Accompaniment
Sun Jun 14 · 3pm
Featuring live piano accompaniment by Makia Matsumura Dir. King Vidor. 1928, 98 mins. U.S. 35mm. Silent with live piano accompaniment. With James Murray, Eleanor Boardman. One of the greatest of all silent films, King Vidor’s masterpiece captures life in fast-paced 1920s New York City from the perspective of an “average” Joe that the camera just happens to pick right out of the crowd. A work of thrilling proletariat melodrama, featuring some of the most remarkable camerawork committed to celluloid, The Crowd is a depiction of economic and domestic struggle right on the cusp of the Great Depression, as well as a vital depiction of the exuberant stampede of the city itself—its joys, its disappointments, its dreams and realities. Tickets: $17.50 / $12 senior and students / $10 youth (ages 3–17) / free for MoMI members at the Senior/Student level and above. There is a $1.50 transaction fee per ticket for all online purchases. The cost of admission may be applied toward a same-day purchase of a membership. Order tickets. Please pick up tickets at the Museum’s admissions desk upon arrival. All seating is general admission.
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Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tours
Thu Jun 18 · 4pm
On Thursdays and Saturdays, join us for a special guided tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition! The family-oriented tour will be led by a Museum educator, who will guide you through selected galleries of the exhibition (all ages welcome) and will include the interactive stations. Groups will meet in the cafe area at 3:00 p.m. The tour lasts 45 minutes. The tour costs $5 per visitor (on top of admission ticket). There is a $1.50 transaction fee per ticket for all online purchases.
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A Town Hall on AI
Thu Jun 18 · 6pm
Artificial Intelligence is supposed to change everything. Depending on who you ask, it will cure cancer, eliminate drudgery, transform education, unlock human creativity, and solve problems we can’t yet imagine. It is also accused of stealing art, replacing workers, polluting the planet, supercharging surveillance, flooding the internet with slop, and making everyone slightly more suspicious of what is real. Most technologies arrive with promises and trade-offs, but the speed, scale, and impact of AI feel different. Join Museum of the Moving Image and the Financial Times Weekend Festival for a public town hall on Artificial Intelligence. Bring your questions, concerns, hopes, frustrations, and predictions to this public conversation with invited guest speakers from journalism, government, culture, and technology to wrestle with the question: is it worth it? Panelists: Aziz Isham, Executive Director, Museum of the Moving Image Madhumita Murgia, Artificial Intelligence Editor, Financial Times Senator Kristen Gonzalez, New York State Senate Organized by Gabo Arora, Director of Strategic Initiatives Free admission. RSVP here. Presented in partnership with the Financial Times Weekend Festival
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Family Day Football
Fri Jun 19 · 12pm
12:00–6:00 p.m. Fox Amphitheater and Kaufman Courtyard Celebrate Juneteenth and the spirit of the World Cup with a day of family-friendly activities across the Museum. Visitors can participate in football-inspired games, interactive experiences, and immersive VR activities designed to bring together families, friends, and intergenerational audiences through play, movement, and storytelling. Games include Subsoccer, Subbuteo (table-top game), the video game FC26, and more! Free admission.
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Nothing but a Man
Fri Jun 19 · 1pm
Dir. Michael Roemer. 1964, 95 mins. 35mm courtesy of The Film Desk. Restored by Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation. With Ivan Dixon, Abbey Lincoln, Julius Harris. One of the very finest American films of the 1960s, this masterpiece of independent cinema by Michael Roemer is a painfully honest, enormously moving drama about Black life in the South, featuring superb performances by Ivan Dixon and Abbey Lincoln as a railroad worker and a preacher’s daughter falling in love and struggling to make ends meet. Visually, Roemer’s film, shot in claustrophobic full-frame (1.33:1) and filled with gorgeous, compassionate close-ups, reflects the constricting social environment its characters live in. Tickets: $17.50 / $12 senior and students / $10 youth (ages 3–17) / discounted for MoMI members ($7–$11). There is a $1.50 transaction fee per ticket for all online purchases. The cost of admission may be applied toward a same-day purchase of a membership. Order tickets. Please pick up tickets at the Museum’s admissions desk upon arrival. All seating is general admission.
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USA vs Australia: World Cup Watch Party
Fri Jun 19 · 2pm
Experience the excitement of the World Cup on the Museum’s big screen during a special live watch party screening of the United States match against Australia. Presented in the Museum’s grand Redstone Theater, the event transforms the cinema into a communal, stadium-like viewing experience complete with pre-game energy and shared audience excitement. Drinks and snacks are available at Mon Amour Coffee & Wine in our lobby (specialty cup must be purchased to bring drinks into the theater). Free with RSVP. Seats will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis.
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Do the Right Thing
Fri Jun 19 · 6:30pm
Dir. Spike Lee. 1989, 120 mins. 35mm. With Spike Lee, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Rosie Perez, John Turturro. One of the most aesthetically accomplished and intentionally incendiary American films ever made, Spike Lee’s full-throttle portrait of a particularly eventful, hot summer day in the life of a Bed-Stuy neighborhood is a remarkable and ambivalent dramatization of race relations in America. The phenomenal cast (including Aiello as pizza man Sal, Lee as delivery boy Mookie, and Davis as an apartment-stoop prophet), the endlessly inventive visuals, and the charged political discussion made this an epochal cultural moment when it was released in summer 1989, and it easily retains its power to this day. Tickets: $17.50 / $12 senior and students / $10 youth (ages 3–17) / discounted for MoMI members ($7–$11). There is a $1.50 transaction fee per ticket for all online purchases. The cost of admission may be applied toward a same-day purchase of a membership. Order tickets. Please pick up tickets at the Museum’s admissions desk upon arrival. All seating is general admission.
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Yoga in the Courtyard with The Yoga Room
Sat Jun 20 · 9:45am
Join local studio The Yoga Room for a free class in the beautiful MoMI Courtyard! Museum doors will open at 9:45 a.m. for check-in, and the class will begin at 10:00 a.m. Stick around after the class to enjoy a treat from the MoMI cafe, or visit the Museum galleries. One RSVP per person, bring your own mat. Note that space is first come, first served. In the event of rain, the event will be cancelled. RSVP here
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