Museum of the Moving Image

Thanks to ALL who helped us launch Open Worlds last Saturday. Open Worlds is designed with you, our MoMI community, in mind. We want to extend particular thanks to Queens Borough President Donovan Richards, State Assembly Members Zohran Mamdani and Jessica Gonzáles-Rojas, and State Senator Kristen Gonzales for joining us! Open Worlds—free access to our lobby and courtyard—continues all summer. Stop in and get a cool drink or delicious pastry from @littleflowercafe ; use our WiFi to work on your next screenplay; or enjoy the courtyard on a nice day. Keep checking for upcoming free events all summer long! Link in bio #Openworldsmomi @queensbprichards @zohrankmamdani @sengonzalezny Photos by Thanassi Karageorgiou / @naskaras

Experience the groundbreaking work of Auriea Harvey in the major exhibition on view now at MoMI. #aurieamomi @auriea.harvey.studio #digitalart

Join the Academy Museum for احکام نگاه AHKAM-E NEGAH (THE COMMANDMENTS OF LOOKING): THE WORK OF MARYAM TAFAKORY (2020-2023) on Friday, July 5 at 7:30pm. Learn more and reserve tickets at AcademyMuseum.org. This is the first dedicated Los Angeles screening of Tafakory’s work. This program features several short films, including Mast-del (مست دل) which premiered at Cannes in 2023, as well as a rare live performance piece, for which there can be no recording or other documentation. Presented in partnership with Museum of the Moving Image (@MovingImageNYC ) as part of the ongoing film series Infinite Beauty: Muslim and MENASA Identity Onscreen.

Museum without Walls, the partnership between @movingimagenyc and the @Tezos Foundation, is now live! We welcomed visitors over the weekend to see @sabatobox ’s “b a r b i e ~ w o r l d ~ b r e a k d o w n” projected on the Schlosser Media Wall in the MoMI lobby. You can go online to collect a fragment of his work minted on @Tezos . Both are on view/available through July 25. Museum visitors can also take home @auriea.harvey.studio ’s “Echo: Core,” a fragment of “Echo,” her digital sculpture that is part of our major survey of the artist’s work on view in our third-floor gallery. At a new station in our lobby, see “Echo:Core,” and spin the cube to collect an open edition minted on @Tezos —at no cost. Click the link in bio or visit /dressing_room/ to collect Sabato’s fragment. Installation photos by Thanassi Karageorgiou / @naskaras

New York premiere of Emílio Domingo’s documentary BLACK RIO! BLACK POWER! which addresses the Black Rio movement’s influence in culture, society and the struggle for racial justice in Rio de Janeiro and Brazil between the decades of 1970 and 1980. Sunday, July 21 at Museum of the Moving Image, co-presented by Brasil Summerfest. Tix and more info in bio. . . . #comingsoon #brazil #brasil #emiliodomingos @emiliodomingos @blackrioblackpower #documentary #music #riodejaneiro

“In the temple of cinema there are images, light, and reality. Sergei Parajanov was the master of that temple.” — Jean-Luc Godard Born in 1924 to Armenian parents in multicultural Tbilisi, Sergei Parajanov was a troubadour of aesthetic finesse whose versatile genius with the moving image is distinguished through atmospheric mise-en-scène, sumptuous colors, opulent settings, and unforgettable imagery. Parajanov broke the U.S.S.R’s socialist realist doctrine by creating poetic-visual artworks that defied convention, most notable in his films THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES and SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS. Despite severe censorship and multiple arrests, Parajanov would continue to challenge the Soviet regime throughout his career. At his death in 1990, Federico Fellini wrote, “With the death of Sergei Parajanov cinema lost one of its magicians.” Join us starting July 6 to celebrate Sergei Parajanov on the centenary of his birth. MoMI will present some of Parajanov’s greatest feature films and shorts, plus the NY premiere of PARAJANOV: THE LAST SPRING (1992) by his friend and collaborator Mikhail Vartanov. Get tickets at the link in our bio. 100 Years of Parajanov is programmed by guest curator Dorota Lech, who will introduce all screenings July 6 & 7. Community partnership support provided by the Armenian Film Society. THE SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS (1964), Image #2 Sat, July 6, 1:00pm THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES (1968), Image #1 Sat, July 6, 3:30pm Fri, July 26, 6:00pm THE COLOR OF ARMENIAN LAND (1968) + PARAJANOV: THE LAST SPRING (1992), Image 4 Sat, July 6, 6:00pm THE LEGEND OF SURAM FORTRESS (1985), Image #3 Sun, July 7, 1:00pm ASHIK KERIB (1988) Sun, July 7, 3:15pm @parajanov @vartanovart @armenianfilmsociety #parajanov #armenianfilm #georgianfilm #sovietfilm Images credits: Parajanov: The Last Spring courtey of Parajanov-Vartanov Institute. The Legend of Suram Fortress, courtesy of the Georgian National Film Center.

Thanks to all our special guests and the visitors who joined us for a busy June, full of community programs, screenings, and personal appearances by Willem Dafoe, Agnieszka Holland, and others. It’s been a wonderful few weeks at MoMI, and there’s more to come! Keep checking our website for more events, including our free #Openworldsmomi offerings. And, please consider a donation before July 1 to support our work! 1. Juneteenth celebration featuring performances by Edge School of the Arts with LIFE Camp drummers in partnership with Eagle Academy. Photo by Dwayne Palmer. (June 19) 2. MoMI Associate Curator of Public Programs Tiffany Joy Butler with scholars David Bering-Porter and Dr. Michele Prettyman after a screening of The Blood of Jesus on Juneteenth. Photo by Thanassi Karageorgiou. (June 19) 3. @uptownvinylsupreme took over our courtyard for the final leg of our Juneteenth celebration. Photo by T. Karageorgiou. (June 19) 4. Performance of “Everything” by Valerie Green and @danceentropy . Photo by Natalia Sanchez. (June 23) 5. Pixar’s Pete Doctor in conversation with MoMI Curator of Film Eric Hynes for a sneak peek of Inside Out 2 just before the film’s release. (June 7) 6. Puppetry workshop led by @btcarson . Photo by T. Karageorgiou. (June 8) 7. The @johnkoozin Trio performing Muppety music in the Kaufman Courtyard. Photo by Nate Dorr. (June 8) 8. Jim Henson Idea Man post-film Q&A with Karen Falk, Heather Henson, Cheryl Henson, and MoMI Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs Barbara Miller. Photo by N. Dorr. (June 8) 9. The brilliant Polish director Agnieszka Holland sharing amazing stories about the production of The Secret Garden. (June 21) 10. A wonderful weekend of screenings, “Radical Institutions,” presented in partnership with @folkartmuseum . Photo by T. Karageorgiou. (June 21) Our vital work is made possible thanks to donors like you, and we can achieve even more with your support. There’s still time to make a gift and ensure that your impact is felt at the Museum. We’ve got big things brewing. Check the link in our bio to donate!

See the Wachowskis' thrilling BOUND, starring Jennifer Tilly and Gina Gershon, on our big screen June 29 and 30—plus other queer-friendly movies at MoMI this Pride weekend! In addition to BOUND, THELMA & LOUISE, CLUELESS, and ROMY AND MICHELE'S HIGH SCHOOL REUNION all play this weekend as part of See It Big at the ’90s Multiplex; and Jane Schoenbrun's I SEE THE TV GLOW continues through Sunday. #Wachowskis #pridemovies #90sfilms

Join NYC Microseasons this Friday, June 28, for a free evening of exploring local summer phenomena, from mulberries and fireflies to horseshoe crabs and fireworks @movingimagenyc . Attendees can also pick up a copy of our mid-summer almanac mini zine! RSVP at the link in our bio to commemorate these fleeting moments of change.

One more sneak peek at what’s in store tonight, June 27, when John DeMarsico, NY Mets Game Director for SNY, returns to debut a new original short film pairing his favorite movie scenes and game sequences, and to talk baseball and movies with our Curator of Film Eric Hynes. You just have to be there. Don’t miss it! Tickets are on sale at the link in our bio. @johndemarsicoTV @eshynes @snytv #LGM #baseballiscinema #baseballandmovies This Thursday, June 27, we’re thrilled to welcome back John DeMarsico, NY Mets Game Director for SNY, for an evening of conversation with our curator @eshynes about baseball and cinema! DeMarsico will debut an original short film that interpolates clips from some of his favorite movies with sequences from recent SNY broadcasts—the most creative, entertaining, and innovative live sports show in the country! Don’t miss it! Tickets are on sale at the link in our bio. @johndemarsicoTV @snytv #LGM #baseballiscinema #baseballandmovies

From April to June, Queens residents who participated in our workshop Program X: Cultural Activism and Media discussed and created films about their migration, solidarity movements, and the quality of life in their communities. Their collaboration was inspired by Roger Sanjek’s “The Future of Us All: Race and Neighborhood Politics in New York City.” The films they made were presented at the Museum on June 15, and we’re pleased to also share them online at /watch?v=IiwjV_wIF1A (link in bio). This program was funded in part by @humanitiesny with support from @nehgov .

@movingimagenyc and @TezosFoundation are thrilled to partner on a new yearlong project that offers artists working with digital tools an opportunity to exhibit their work and visitors the ability to mint and take home a fragment of the artwork for free.   Starting June 28, head to the Museum to see “b a r b i e ~ w o r l d ~ b r e a k d o w n” (2024) by the first commissioned artist @sabatobox on our Schlosser Media Wall and collect a fragment of the artwork minted on @tezos online for free.   Also at the Museum, see our expansive survey of the work of @auriea.harvey.studio and stop by the MoMI x Tezos station in the lobby to collect “Echo: Core,” a fragment of her monumental sculpture “Echo” minted on @tezos .   Thanks to @theartnewspaper.official for announcing the news this morning in an article featuring interviews with MoMI Curator Regina Harsanyi (@reg_ha ) and Trilitech Head of Art Aleksandra Artamonovskaja (@aljaparis ).