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2018. Jeff Reichert (b. 1978, Northfield, New Jersey. Resides in Brooklyn), Damon Smith (b. 1968 in Houston, Texas, Eric Hynes (b. 1974, Staten Island, New York. Resides in Brooklyn). Video installation. In his 1982 documentary Room ...

God of War

Museum of the Moving Image

Dir. Gordon Chan. 2017, 128 mins. Digital projection. Mandarin with English subtitles. With Regina Wan, Vincent Zhao, Sammo Hung. During the sixteenth century, Japanese pirates proliferate along the Chinese coastline. After months of battle, a ...

PROTOTYPE

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Opening Night Film with Blake Williams in person. Followed by reception Dir. Blake Williams. Canada. 2017, 63 mins. 3-D DCP. As a major storm strikes Texas in 1900, a mysterious televisual device is built and ...

The LEGO Batman Movie

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Dir. Chris McKay. 2017, 104 mins. DCP. Featuring the voices of Will Arnett, Michael Cera, Rosario Dawson, Ralph Fiennes. Batman must face the villains of Gotham City again, but this time with his new sidekick ...

Winter Recess Family Workshop

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Theme: Superheroes!   Create your own superhero world during winter recess with the Museum’s drop-in art making workshops for families. Activities include making one’s own LEGO animations and superhero masks, and designing superhero costumes. Recommended ...

Princess Cyd

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Dir. Stephen Cone. 2017, 96 mins. Digital projection. With Rebecca Spence, Jessie Pinnick, Malic White. It is summertime, and sixteen-year-old Cyd (Pinnick) decides to take a break from her depressive single father and spend time ...

Lady Bird

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Dir. Greta Gerwig. 2017, 94 mins. DCP. With Saoirse Ronan, Timothée Chalamet, Odeya Rush, Tracey Letts, Laurie Metcalf, Kathryn Newton, Lucas Hedges, Laura Marano, Beanie Feldstein. In her critically acclaimed, semi-autobiographical directorial debut, Greta Gerwig ...

Multibowl

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2016. Bennett Foddy (b. 1978, Melbourne, Australia. Lives in New York) and AP Thomson (b. 1989, Istanbul, Turkey. Lives in Brooklyn, NY). Multibowl is a collection of fast-paced mini games sourced and sampled from more ...

A Memory of Astoria

Museum of the Moving Image

2014. Ezra Wube (b. 1980, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, lives in Brooklyn). Animation. 1,756 frames, photographed from canvas with oil paint. 4 minutes. Ezra Wube works with video, installation, drawing, painting, and performance. Reflecting on his ...

36 Bars

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2002. John Divola (b. 1949, Los Angeles. Lives and works in Los Angeles). 36 found 8x10-inch photographs, c. 1928–1933. Collection of Stéphane Samuel & Robert Rubin. In the 1980s, Los Angeles photographer John Divola began ...

The GIF Elevator

Museum of the Moving Image

On view through March 24, 2019: Akua, by Render Fruit (Clara Luzian)  The GIF has become the subject of an unlikely series of reinventions since its introduction in 1987 as a data format. Today the ...

Video Arcade

Museum of the Moving Image

In 1980, $2.8 billion in quarters were pumped into video arcade games in the United States, more than triple the revenue from any previous year. The video arcade had arrived, as a popular culture phenomenon ...