Curators’ Choice 2024: The First Batch at The Museum of the Moving Image

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Published on Wednesday, 13 November 2024 15:53

Written by Brad Balfour

 No Other Land

Each year the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) conducts a survey of the best works in film and television from the past year as part of their Curators’ Choice series. From December 1–31, the Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35th Ave, Queens, NY)  will present Part I of the Curators' Choice program, The First Batch, with Part II taking place in January 2025.

Featured works include several documentaries. Oksana Karpovych’s Intercepted, No Other Land (directed by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor), Black Box Diaries (with director Shiori Ito in person), and Union (with directors Brett Story and Stephen Maing in person).

The series also includes nonfiction works from Deborah Stratman (Last Things), Ben Russell (Direct Action), and Johan Grimonprez (Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat) and two TV/streaming works by Lance Oppenheim, Ren Faire and FX’s Spermworld (Dec. 8, with director in person). The series continues with art-house favorites and pop cultural hits such as Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera, Between the Temples (Nathan Silver and Chris Wells in person Dec. 15), I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun in person Dec. 14), and Denis Villeneuve’s Dune Part Two, to be presented in 70mm (Dec. 26–29, and accompanied by Dune), as well as independent film releases and discoveries, including Lisandro Alonso’s Eureka, Bas Devos’s Here, Phạm Thiên Ân’s Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell, Good One (with India Donaldson in person Dec. 6), Tyler Taormina's Christmas Eve in Miller's Point, and Kazik Radwanski’s Matt and Mara. More additions may be coming to the First Batch, so keep an eye out.

To learn more, go to: https://movingimage.org/series/curators-choice-2024-the-first-batch/

Curators’ Choice 2024: The First Batch
December 1 - 31, 2024

The Museum of the Moving Image
36-01 35th Ave
Queens, NY 11106

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