Art Review
The Video Game of Life
In Lu Yang’s hypnotic arcade, Buddhist cosmology refracts through gaming culture.
Museum of the Moving Image
News
Community-Curated Digital Art Show Comes to Queens
The Museum of the Moving Image invited the public to vote and select three artists making motion-based digital works.
Film
The Indie Roots of Confessional Film
In the late 1980s and '90s, a wave of independent directors turned cameras on themselves, utilizing documentary as a mode of confession and self-reflection.
Film
Fiction and Fact Intermingle at the First Look Film Festival
The Museum of the Moving Image’s annual experimental cinema event features several films that remix archival materials.
Film
Films That Resist the Erasure of Arab Identity
The New York Arab Festival is concluding its second edition with a screening of nine short films at the Museum of the Moving Image.
Film
What Salamanders Tell Us About Our Future on Earth
A Common Sequence muses on the different ways that humans assess, categorize, understand, and often exploit the natural world.
Film
Noriaki Tsuchimoto Transformed Documentary Into an Art of Compassion
Though not well known outside of Japan, Tsuchimoto honed an observational style of filmmaking similar to the cinema verité movement in the US and Europe, but years earlier.
Interview
Prismatic Ground Tries to Change the Conversation on Experimental Documentary
Film programmer Inney Prakash talks to Hyperallergic about what it takes to start a new film festival solo during a pandemic.
Film
How Do We Know What’s Real in the Era of the Deepfake?
The Museum of the Moving Image show Deepfake: Unstable Evidence on Screen tries to help visitors equip themselves to discern real images from fake ones.
Interview
Presence and Absence in Virtual Reality Storytelling
Charlie Shackleton talks to Hyperallergic about his performance piece As Mine Exactly and the challenges of virtual reality filmmaking.
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Announcement
Museum of the Moving Image Launches Screening Series Focused on Extinction & Life as It Might Be
MoMI’s yearlong Science on Screen series opens February 13 with classic films Woman in the Dunes and The World, the Flesh, and the Devil presented in 35mm.
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Museum of the Moving Image’s Latest Exhibition Focuses on TikTok’s Creative Community
Infinite Duets delves into the work of TikTok creators and the collaborative process that lies at the core of the popular entertainment platform.