Museum of the Moving Image

Please note: Starting today, Museum of the Moving Image is serving as an early voting poll site. The hours are listed below; entrance is on 36 Street (west-side of our building). You can find your designated poll site here: https://findmypollsite.vote.nyc/ If you're coming to the Museum to see our exhibitions or catch a film, please enter as usual from our main entrance! #votenyc

Next Saturday, June 19, join us for a celebration of Juneteenth featuring a trio of groundbreaking films by Black filmmakers. Kicking off the series is Channing Godfrey People's stunning debut film MISS JUNETEENTH, starring Nicole Beharie, who won the Gotham Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of a single mother and former Texas beauty queen. Reserve tickets: bit.ly/3zn1Yk0

Nothing feels better than a summer night spent at the movies, so we're thrilled to be able to bring back evening screenings in the Redstone Theater! Catch an added FINAL show of Stanley Kubrick's anti-war masterpiece, PATHS OF GLORY (in stunning 35mm) this SAT at 6:30 PM! Tickets: bit.ly/2TSMLqt

This just in: Our screenings of Street Gang: How We Got To Sesame Street June 12 & 18 will feature an exclusive taped video introduction by Stephanie D'Abruzzo and Craig Shemin! Stephanie has performed as a puppeteer on Sesame Street since 1993. She has played a wide range of characters over the years, and took over the role of Prairie Dawn in 2015. And Craig is the long-time guest curator of our ongoing Jim Henson's World series, and the President of The Jim Henson Legacy. ...Reserve your tickets here: bit.ly/34Tdt4B Remember: After the film, be sure to visit The Jim Henson Exhibition upstairs to see the Sesame Street section (with puppets of Big Bird, Elmo, Cookie Monster, and Prairie Dawn). It's just $5 to add on a gallery visit.

On view through June 27 in our elevator: THERE ARE NO GIRLS ON THE INTERNET (2020) by Addie Wagenknecht, an American artist based in Austria whose work explores the tension between expression and technology. This is part of the series The Situation Room, site-specific installations that play with the relationship between public and private information, disembodied presence, critical engineering, pranksterism, ambiguous identities, and online user culture. Supported by GIPHY Arts Learn more at bit.ly/2NS9lbZ

I do not think that my films or films by any other filmmaker represent ‘THE TRUTH.’ I do not feel the need to categorize my films or anyone else's. Frederick Wiseman #MondayMotivation Photo by Sachyn Mital.

Sunday Read: One of the most beautiful and sinister anomalies in Hollywood history, LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN is a noir in Technicolor. In this essay from Reverse Shot’s archives, Imogen Sara Smith delves into DP Leon Shamroy’s remarkable, Oscar-winning work. http://bit.ly/3tzU2sH

It took Mrs. Doubtfire’s Oscar-winning makeup artists four and a half hours a day to transform Robin Williams into the iconic nanny. One of many objects from our permanent collection we can’t wait to share again with you. On view in the core exhibition "Behind the Screen." Gift of the designer and maker, Greg Cannom and Cannom Creations Crew.

Our popular online retrospective Lynne Sachs: Between Thought and Expression has been extended. You can see these bold, singular films in MoMI’s Virtual Cinema through Sunday, February 7. Streaming at bit.ly/3pbPLZI

Our community partner Afrikan PoetryTheatre, Inc. will present their annual Black History Month Film Festival beginning Saturday, Feb. 6 and continuing throughout the month. The event recognizes the renaissance happening in contemporary Black cinema and television with an exciting showcase of mostly locally shot documentaries, short films, and a situational comedy. Though it is typically held in the Museum's Redstone Theater, this year the festival takes place online. More info at bit.ly/2YOa2Jl. Tune in starting tomorrow at 3PM ET: youtube.com/c/APTVAfrikanPoetryTheatreVision

On Sunday (12/13, 6PM ET), join MoMI and Game Artist in Residence Sharang Biswas to play a live online game he co-designed: BASIC PRINCIPLES OF INCANTATION. Participants take on the role of Victorian students in an introductory course on magic, using real-world Linguistics to solve puzzles and cast spells. bit.ly/3m3oq9Z #GamePlayMoMI is a five-part series. This session is open to ages 16+

Master filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu was born on this day in 1903. Ozu's TOKYO STORY (1953) has often been praised as one of the greatest films ever made. What's your favorite Ozu film? Photo: 1951 portrait published in the Japanese magazine Mainichi Graphic.

In this Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner in World Cinema, a young woman condemned to death for murdering her husband seeks forgiveness in front of a reality-TV audience. YALDA, A NIGHT FOR FORGIVENESS is now showing in our Virtual Cinema! bit.ly/3qNtZN4

"[KOYAANISQATSI] reminds us that we exist within our own bubble, while providing that rare opportunity to detach ourselves from the constructs of our society."- Radical Art Review Don't miss this chance to detach on Saturday evening at the Queens Drive-In.

A talented young Chinese scholar vanishes within weeks of arriving at the University of Illinois campus. This true-crime incident from 2017 is explored by Jenny Shi in FINDING YINGYING, a film which gives voice to the family of Yingying Zhang as they try to uncover the truth of her disappearance and find justice. Now showing in MoMI's Virtual Cinema. bit.ly/37QeZFI

"Brilliant. Like a lost season of 'Veep'... amuses and devastates in equal measure." Moveable Fest David Osit's MAYOR follows the charismatic Mayor of Ramallah, Musa Hadid, on his civic rounds planning budgets for schools, preparing Christmas festivities, hosting British royalty, meeting about tourism campaigns, and more all while negotiating the madness and absurdity of the endless invasions that disturb this West Bank city that seeks peace. MAYOR opens in our Virtual Cinema today! bit.ly/2L4KAvz

KOYAANISQATSI, which in Hopi means "life out of balance," screens Saturday at the Queens Drive-In.

Feeling anxious? We invite you to SHAKE IT OFF this week at the Queens Drive-In. Join us for 4 nights of hip-shaking (or mind-altering) music movies starting this Thursday 11/5: Prince in PURPLE RAIN + Talking Heads's STOP MAKING SENSE 11/6: Taylor Swift's MISS AMERICANA (Free with RSVP) 11/7: Philip Glassscored KOYAANISQATSI + psychedelic LIGHT SHOW 11/8: SCHOOL OF ROCK (Free with RSVP) ... Get your tickets at rooftopfilms.com/drivein/queens/

This Saturday at the Queens Drive-In, don't miss KOYAANISQATSI on the big screen. As The New Yorker writes, "Koyaanisqatsi, which was shot during the nineteen-seventies and released in 1983, is [...] a singular event in film history. There is no more potent example of a score dominating a film. The relationship between filmmaker and composer extended Eisenstein’s ideal to the _n_th degree: Glass watched the footage and wrote some music, Reggio and his editors listened to the music and reworked the footage, and the process went on until the appearance of fusion was total."

"[T]he greater value of the Living Room Candidate site is that it offers the opportunity to observe how political ads work, in order not to be bamboozled by them, or at least to recognize the act of coercion. This is possible because techniques of persuasion remain much the same even as candidates change. Viewing can be dispassionate. Watching ads that are no longer politically active is akin to being inoculated by an inactivated virus." Jonathon Keats writes in Forbes about our online exhibition The Living Room Candidate. Read his full article and be sure to visit LivingRoomCandidate.org!

¡Feliz Día de los Muertos! What's on your ofrenda? We're remembering our 2018 celebration of this special day when a showing of the Pixar film COCO was preceded by a performance by the talented young musicians of Mariachi Nuevo Amanecer Academy, in the lobby where we had our own museum ofrenda, or altar, honoring movie ancestors.

Looking for a movie to watch as we head into Election Day USA? Sam Soko's Softiethefilm, a chronicle of the scrappy underdog campaign of Boniface Softie Mwangi who goes from photojournalist and activist to running for a regional seat in Kenya offers thoughtful perspective. Now showing in our Virtual Cinema bit.ly/2Ee52Ht "A powerful and personal election biopic... as intimate as it is brave." The Film Stage

Sean Connery (19302020)

We're a day late (ONLY YESTERDAY ) but recognizing Isao Takahata (19352018), Studio Ghibli co-founder and the acclaimed animation director of POM POKO, THE TALE OF PRINCESS KAGUYA, GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES, and more, who was born on October 29. Photo of Isao Takahata at Festival international du film d'animation d'Annecy (source: Wikicommons author Boungawa).

As we head into the final three days of early voting in NYC, please note that the poll hours have been extended due to the enormous turnout! FRI, OCT 30: 7 AM TO 5 PM SAT, OCT 31: 7 AM TO 5 PM SUN, NOV 1: 7 AM TO 4 PM For more information and to locate your designated poll site, go to https://vote.nyc/page/early-voting-information... We want to thank all our community members for their dedication with a special shout out to the mutual aid societies and other groups who are looking out for our neighbors! Read about some of them here:

Come for a night of immersive sound and light

Thrilled to announce a psychedelic evening we have coming up next Saturday, Nov 7 at the Queens Drive-In! Featuring the laser light demo that spawned Laserium at the Griffith Observatory, work by Joshua White, the luminary founder of The Joshua Light Show, and a piece by Danish light art pioneer Thomas Wilfred made almost 100 years ago. Paired with the sensational Koyaanisqatsi which follows the rise and fall of civilization set to a score by Philip Glass. rooftopfilms.com//queens-drive-in-light-show-koyaanisqats/

"MR. SOUL! paints a picture of a figure every bit as well versed, well connected, and well respected as any of the era’s important entertainment figures, but whose legacy and immense contributions have largely been left out of the annals of popular memory." Read Jordan Coley's New Yorker article about Ellis Haizlip, the remarkable host and producer of the groundbreaking public TV series SOUL! The documentary MR. SOUL is back in our Virtual Cinema: bit.ly/2GaeXhP