Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

Join us in the education studio on Saturdays through Aug 17 to learn about how sound designers create and fill a film’s soundscape, encompassing all that we hear in a movie theater. This weekend, in the Fantasy workshop, we will practice creating new sounds for fictional or animated worlds. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4bMoswO

Join us in the Ted Mann Theater for a very special culmination and screening of short films and a panel conversation with the filmmakers of the Promise Workshop cohort of 2024. Learn more & Tickets: https://bit.ly/4d2I152 Academy Museum education programs are supported by Melina and Eric Esrailian, Kathy Fields and Garry Rayant, Miryam and Robert Knutson, The James Irvine Foundation, The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, Chandra Wilson, and Sony Pictures Entertainment.

Join us for a screening of HACKERS (1995) on Saturday, July 20th accompanied by a pre-screening conversation with author Claire L. Evans, HACKERS producer Jeff Kleeman, and architect and filmmaker Liam Young, moderated by Academy Museum Vice President of Curatorial Affairs Doris Berger. Reserve tickets at AcademyMuseum.org. This screening precedes the museum’s upcoming exhibition, Cyberpunk: Envisioning Possible Futures Through Cinema, which is among more than seventy exhibitions and programs presented as part of PST ART. For more information about PST ART: Art & Science Collide, please visit pst.art.

Presenting THE ADDAMS FAMILY (1991) on Wednesday, July 17 at 7:30pm. Special guest introduction by makeup artist Kevin Haney. https://bit.ly/4f2eGcS Anjelica Huston and Raul Julia are pitch-perfect as the morbidly affectionate Morticia and Gomez Addams, with able support from Christopher Lloyd as the bug-eyed stranger who may be the long-lost Fester, and Christina Ricci as Wednesday. Ruth Myers was nominated for her gorgeously Gothic costumes, and Anthony Cortino, Fern Buchner, Kathrine James, Kevin C. Haney, and Christopher C. Shihar were among the makeup artists and hairstylists who turned the cast into the spitting image of Addams’s iconic characters. 1991. 100 min. USA. Color. English. Rated PG-13. DCP.

Meet us on Friday, July 19, at 4:30pm for our Drop-In Workshop for Teens, inspired by our Shifting Perspectives: Vertical Cinema exhibition. In this workshop, teens can use their own devices or devices available in the education studio to film around the museum and edit what they’ve captured to create their own vertical cinema! Museum admission is free for youth ages 17 and under. Learn more and reserve tickets: https://bit.ly/3WeuEsS

On weekend afternoons this summer, visitors can experience a curated selection of home movies filmed in and around Los Angeles. Reserve tickets: https://bit.ly/3WijJyr Home movies are an essential part of our moving image heritage. The Academy Film Archive collects and conserves home movies, making them accessible to researchers, filmmakers, and the public. The Archive holds thousands of amateur and personal reels of diverse content, with emphasis on the motion picture industry, underrepresented communities, and Southern California.

On Thursday, July 11 join us for 'An Evening with Christine Vachon' featuring a screening of POISON (1991) in 35mm. The pre-screening conversation with Vachon will be moderated by Kirsten Schaffer, CEO, WIF (Women In Film). Reserve Tickets: https://bit.ly/4cAKdAI The producing prowess of Christine Vachon cannot be overstated, especially in discussions of the queer independent filmmaking space. Half of the two-woman team that founded production company Killer Films in 1996 (along with Pamela Koffler), Vachon has been the driving force responsible for bringing works by Todd Haynes, Tom Kalin, Todd Solondz, and John Waters into being. 1991. 85 min. USA. B&W, Color. English. Rated R. 35mm.

Celebrate the historic civil rights law Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) that was signed into law in July 1990. Join us at the Academy Museum on Saturday, July 13 for a full day of workshops, screenings,  performances, and conversations centered around  bringing awareness to Disability, Representation, and Accessibility in Film. Complete this form to request accommodations:  https://bit.ly/3WbFpMt

The John Waters: Pope of Trash exhibition features 12 curated galleries, interactive installations, original costumes, and over 400 iconic items from his films. See it for yourself before it closes on August 4th! #AcademyMuseum

Dive into the unique, filthy, and laugh-out-loud world of John Waters with museum educators every Saturday as they engage on films and objects in brief, 30-minute guided tours. These tours will cover a brief exploration into Waters’s process, style, and films as a writer, director, producer, cinematographer, and editor. These special tours are first-come, first-served. It would be a dirty shame to miss!