March - April Programs at Museum of the Moving Image announced

Astoria, NY (March 5, 2026) — This March and April, Museum of the Moving Image opens the major new exhibition Overexposed: Art, Technology, and the Body; welcomes author and programmer Ashley Clark (The World of Black Film) for the weekend screening series The World of ’70s Black Film Musicals; hosts a weekend series highlighting Marilyn Monroe in New York; and presents the fifth Marvels of Media Festival, celebrating autistic media-makers, and the 15th First Look Festival, featuring New York premieres of exciting international cinema; and more.
 
On March 14, opening day of Overexposed: Art, Technology, and the Body, the Museum will also present the accompanying screening program  Overexposed: Through and Through featuring two films that offer wildly disparate representations of the interior of the body: Richard Fleischer’s 1966 sci-fi classic Fantastic Voyage introduced by scientist Zahi A. Fayad, PhD, a biomedical imaging and nanomedicine specialist; followed by Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor’s De Humani Corporis Fabrica.

In its free community event series Open Worlds 2026, the Museum will host its first ever Oscars Watch Party (Mar. 15), invite visitors to interview friends and family members in the program Story Studio: Women’s History Month (Mar. 15), and present a talk with veteran production designer Dean Taucher (Mar. 21). With Open Worlds, the Museum offers free access to its ground-floor spaces during Museum hours. Additional programs will be added as they are confirmed.
 
The Museum continues its Accessibility programs: on the last Saturday of each month, Touch Object Experience invites 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, 10:00–11:30 a.m., free Access Mornings offer 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.
 
Please note the following holiday hours in April: open daily, April 2–12 (hours vary), for New York City public schools’ spring recess.
 
Unless 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 movingimage.org. 
 
Schedule is subject to change. Additional programs will be added as they are confirmed.
 
 
SCREENING AND EVENT SERIES
 
The World of ’70s Black Film Musicals — Presented by Ashley Clark
March 7–8
In his expansive new book The World of Black Film, author, programmer, and Criterion Collection Curatorial Director Ashley Clark embarks on a journey through cinematic Blackness, spanning more than one hundred years and 30 countries across 100 films. The Museum presents a weekend program highlighting his new book with screenings of three films, all Black musical films from the 1970s: the American studio production The Wiz and the Mauritanian-French-Algerian coproduction West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty—both introduced by Clark—and the Sun Ra cult Afrofuturist classic Space Is the Place, another unorthodox seventies music experience. Clark will sign copies of his new book on Saturday, March 7, after the screening of The Wiz. Series info
 
Open Worlds 2026
Ongoing
This year-round initiative offers free access to the Museum’s ground floor to the public accompanied by a series of free community events that spark curiosity with explorations of the moving image across platforms—gaming, film, television, immersive experiences, and emerging technologies. March programs include Story Studio: Women’s History Month (Mar. 15), Oscars Watch Party (Mar. 15), and “On Production Design” with Dean Taucher (Mar. 21). Series info
Programmatic 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.
 
2001: The Year, Not the Movie
February 14–April 11
MoMI honors the watershed year 2001 with a major screening series featuring more than 30 titles, all released in the United States that year. March titles include Mulholland Drive (Dir. David Lynch, 35mm); Monsters, Inc. in 3D (Dir. Pete Docter); Memento (Dir. Christopher Nolan, 35mm); Moulin Rouge (Dir. Baz Luhrmann, 35mm); I’m Going Home (Dir. Manoel de Oliveira, 35mm); Pulse (Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 35mm), Fat Girl (Dir. Catherine Breillat, 35mm); The Royal Tenenbaums (Dir. Wes Anderson, 35mm); Gosford Park (Dir. Robert Altman); Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (Dir. Zacharias Kunuk); In Praise of Love (Dir. Jean-Luc Godard. 35mm print courtesy of Film Desk); The Piano Teacher (Dir. Michael Haneke. 35mm print courtesy of the Yale Film Archive); Ghost World (Dir. Terry Zwigoff, 35mm); Va Savoir (Dir. Jacques Rivette, 35mm); The Others (Dir. Alejandro Amenábar); Millennium Mambo (Dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien); Trouble Every Day (Dir. Claire Denis. 35mm print courtesy of Film Desk). Press release | Series info

Overexposed: Through and Through
Saturday, March 14
Presented in conjunction with the new exhibition Overexposed: Art, Technology, and the Body, this screening program features two films—one fact, one fiction—that offer wildly disparate representations of the interior of the body. The Oscar-winning 1966 sci-fi classic Fantastic Voyage (Dir. Richard Fleischer) envisioned a future for medicine, featuring visual illustration by medical illustrator Frank Armitage. It will be introduced by Zahi A. Fayad, PhD, a biomedical imaging and nanomedicine specialist. The second feature is the audacious 2022 documentary De Humani Corporis Fabrica, (Dirs. Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor) filmed inside eight Parisian hospitals, and utilizing innovative cameras to travel inside bodies, to witness surgeries, and access a myriad of perspectives on the practice of medicine. Real and imagined, each film tells us something about ways of seeing and manipulating the body. Part of Science on Screen. Series info
 
5th Marvels of Media Festival 2026
March 26–28
The Museum’s annual celebration of outstanding work created by autistic media-makers returns for a fifth edition with screenings, panel discussions, workshops, and an exhibition that includes virtual reality experiences and video games. The festival kicks off with an opening night reception on March 26 and continues through Saturday. Admission to all Marvels of Media screenings and events is free with RSVP. Lead support for Marvels of Media Festival is provided by Sapan Studio. The lineup will be announced soon. Festival info

Marilyn Monroe in New York
April 11–12
On the occasion of Marilyn Monroe’s centenary, the Museum presents a selection of the eternal movie star’s films set in New York City, including The Seven Year Itch, How to Marry a Millionaire, and the rarely shown Don’t Bother to Knock. It was in New York that the iconic shot of Monroe standing over the subway grate was taken by legendary photographer and lifelong New Yorker Sam Shaw, whose vibrant images of Monroe charted the actress throughout her career. To celebrate this relationship, ACC Art Books has published the beautiful volume Dear Marilyn: The Unseen Letters and Photographs by Sam Shaw. Through Shaw’s words and photographs, Dear Marilyn offers newly discovered correspondence and never-before-seen, digitally remastered photographs from the original 1940s–1960s archival material, from behind the scenes of The Seven Year Itch to candid images of her on the streets of the City and the beach in Amagansett. On April 11, Melissa Stevens, Shaw’s granddaughter, joins for a special conversation with film scholar Imogen Sara Smith (The Criterion Collection) about the myth, the image, and the reality of Marilyn Monroe. Series info
 
Always on Sunday: Greek Film Series
Ongoing series with dates in March and April
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. March 15: Wishbone (Dir. Penny Panayotopoulou. 2024) When his brother dies unexpectedly, a financially strapped hospital security guard is forced to care for his young niece.
April 19: Kyuka: Before Summer’s End (Dir. Kostis Charamountanis. 2024) 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.
Series info
 
First Look 2026
April 23–May 3
First Look, MoMI’s annual festival for adventurous new cinema, introduces New York audiences to more than two dozen works hailing from nearly as many countries, encompassing feature and short films; fiction and nonfiction; New York premieres; experiments with—and exemplary expressions of—form. Since its inception in 2012, the guiding ethos of First Look is discovery, aiming to introduce audiences to new films, filmmakers to new audiences, and everyone to different methods, perspectives, interrogations, and encounters. The 15th edition of the festival will be spread out over two weekends, and feature new genre sections, events, and panels. Presenting Sponsor: MUBI

 
EXHIBITIONS
 
Overexposed: Art, Technology, and the Body
March 14, 2026–January 7, 2027
Overexposed: Art, Technology, and the Body traces how innovations like cinema and X‑ray imaging radically transformed the way we see—and understand—the 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.
Organized by Sonia Shechet Epstein, Curator of Science and Technology.
Lead 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 Goldman, May & Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, and Doug Pugh. Press release | Exhibition info
 
Yuri Norstein: Three Tail Tales
March 5–May 31
This screening program is presented inside Tut’s Fever Movie Palace, an artwork and working theater by Red Grooms and Lysiane Luong; part of the core exhibition Behind the Screen. Three 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: The Fox and the Hare (1973, 12 mins.), The Heron and the Crane (1974, 10 mins.), and Hedgehog in the Fog (1975, 11 mins.). Recently restored by Deaf Crocodile as part of their collection Treasures of Soviet Animation, they showcase Norstein’s 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. Exhibition info
 
Stories and Set Designs for The Sopranos
February 14–May 31
In the Amphitheater Gallery
The exhibition centers materials that trace how the series’ narrative and visual worlds were established. Drawing from David Chase’s personal archive, the exhibition features scripts, notes, and research that documents the development of the celebrated series’ 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’ central action unfolds—Dr. Melfi’s office, the Soprano home, the Bada Bing strip club, and Satriale’s Pork Store—through 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.
This exhibition was made possible with the support of Lisa and Richard Plepler. Press release | Exhibition info
 
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Collaborative work by Sarah Friend and Yehwan Song
February 19–May 10
On the Herbert S. Schlosser Media Wall and in the Museum lobby. Presented in partnership with the Tezos Foundation. 
Friend and Song tether the contemporary art market, the Museum’s 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. Exhibition info
 
Lu Yang: The Great Adventure of Material World 
September 26–March 22 
In the Jane Henson Amphitheater 
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The Jim Henson Exhibition
Ongoing
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Behind the Screen
Ongoing
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See a listing of all current and fall exhibitions here.
 
 
HIGHLIGHTED SCREENINGS AND EVENTS
 
FREE COMMUNITY EVENT
Story Studio: Women’s History Month
Saturday, March 15, 12:00–3:00 p.m.
Story collectors, aspiring filmmakers, and family archivists: bring your people to MoMI for a hands-on documentary interview project. In celebration of Women’s History Month, visitors are invited to film and interview each other about the important moments in their lives with the assistance of working documentary filmmakers. Participants come away with a video of their conversation.(Video will be sent electronically after processing.) RSVP to reserve a time slot; limited space available. Part of Open Worlds 2026. Event info
 
FREE COMMUNITY EVENT
Oscars Watch Party
Sunday, March 15, 6:30 p.m.
MoMI hosts its first ever Oscars Watch Party! Arrive on the red carpet dressed to impress, enjoy drinks and snacks in the café, and watch the live broadcast of the 98th Academy Awards on the big screen in the grand Sumner M. Redstone Theater. Hosted by a dynamic duo of Queens stars, Avant Garbage and Angela Mansberry, who are ready to entertain during commercial breaks with trivia contests and more! Free admission – RSVP required. Event info
 
FREE COMMUNITY EVENT
“On Production Design” with Dean Taucher
Saturday, March 21, 1:00 p.m.
Acclaimed production designer Dean Taucher will present an inside look at the craft of building story worlds for the screen. In this illustrated talk, Taucher will share and discuss images of his set designs for television series including The Sopranos, Law & Order: SVU, and more, offering insight into the research, collaboration, and practical problem-solving that shape television environments. The conversation is moderated by CBS News anchor Carissa Lawson. Free with RSVP; limited availability. Event info
Related: Taucher will lead a tour of MoMI’s exhibition Stories and Set Designs for The Sopranos, which features his work (ticket purchase required, which includes Museum admission).
 
SCREENING AND LIVE EVENT
Johnny Carson Presents Jim Henson: Celebrating Johnny Carson’s Centennial
With Craig Shemin and Mark Malkoff, book signing follows program
Sunday, March 29, 1:00 p.m.
Program duration: 100 mins. Henson historian and series programmer Craig Shemin and Mark Malkoff, Carson podcaster, historian, and author of the new book Love, Johnny Carson, will present a compilation of rarely seen highlights from Jim Henson and the Muppets’ various appearances with Johnny Carson through the years. This special screening is presented courtesy of Carson Entertainment in celebration of Johnny Carson’s centennial year. A book signing will follow the screening. Part of Jim Henson’s World. Event info
 
SPECIAL EVENT
Sloan Science and Film Reception and Celebration
Thursday, April 9, 6:30 p.m.
Museum 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. Event info

SCREENING AND LIVE EVENT
Horse Feathers + Marx Brothers Council Podcast Live
Sunday, April 12, 12:00 p.m.
Dir. 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. Horse Feathers is among the Marx Brothers’ funniest and most scathing attacks on authority, featuring some of their greatest songs, including “I’m Against It” and “Everyone Says I Love You.” Following the screening, join the Marx Brothers Council Podcast as they record an episode with a live audience. Event info
 
SCREENING
The Sound of Music (Singalong Version)
Sunday, April 12, 3:00 p.m.
Dir. Robert Wise. 1965, 172 mins. U.S. DCP. With Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer. Robert Wise’s spectacular adaptation of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway show is one of cinema’s 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. The Sound of Music bursts with unforgettable songs and glorious CinemaScope images shot on location in Salzburg, Austria. Winner of five Oscars, including Best Picture. Part of Song & Dance. Event info
 
About Museum of the Moving Image
MoMI celebrates the history, art, technology, and future of the moving image in all of its forms. Located in Astoria, New York, the Museum presents exhibitions; screenings; discussion programs featuring actors, directors, and creative leaders; and education programs. It houses the nation’s most comprehensive collection of moving image artifacts and screens over 500 films annually. Its exhibitions—including the core exhibition Behind the Screen and The Jim Henson Exhibition—are noted for their integration of material objects, interactive experiences, and audiovisual presentations. For more information about MoMI, visit movingimage.org.

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