ContemporAsian: Yasmin Ahmad's Mukhsin
May 28–June 2

Asian cinema is fast becoming a cinema without borders. Digital filmmaking and international coproductions are rapidly transforming an industry in which the transnational flow of talent and resources—even between the U.S. and Asia—has become the norm. ContemporAsian showcases films that get little exposure, but which engage the various styles, histories, and changes in Asian cinema. Presented in special weeklong engagements, the films in the series include both recent independent gems and little-seen classics. Malaysian director Yasmin Ahmad, called the Godmother of the new Malaysian digital cinema, creates films that draw from experiences close to her own life. Her Orked trilogy is set in the world of today's most culturally diverse societies—providing ample opportunity for conflicts of color and creed, prejudice and taboo. Mukhsin, the third film in the trilogy (but the earliest in the story's chronology), portrays the filmmaker's alter ego, Orked, and her best friend, a boy named Mukhsin, as they enter adolescence and their relationship changes character.

The Bourne Trilogy and An Evening with Doug Liman and James Schamus
May 29–31

In this special program, presented in conjunction with the 2008 World Science Festival, producer/director Doug Liman and James Schamus of Focus Features are joined by a prominent neuroscientist to explore questions about brain function, memory, personality, and identity raised by the onscreen exploits of reluctant super-spy Jason Bourne. This panel discussion follows a screening of The Bourne Identity, and coincides with a series of screenings of the Bourne trilogy—which was recently acquired from Universal Studios for MoMA's collection. The World Science Festival, an annual weeklong program of events celebrating scientific discovery, takes place May 28 through June 1 at venues across New York City. Visit www.worldsciencefestival.com for more information.

Peter Hutton
Through May 26

Peter Hutton (b. 1944, Detroit) is one of cinema's most ardent and poetic portraitists of city and landscape. A former merchant seaman, he has spent nearly forty years voyaging around the world, often by cargo ship, to create sublimely meditative, luminously photographed, and intimately diaristic studies of place, from the Yangtze River to the Polish industrial city of Lodz, and from northern Iceland to a ship graveyard on the Bangladeshi shore. This comprehensive retrospective of eighteen films reveals an artist dedicated to reawakening a more contemplative and spontaneous way of observing and envisioning the world. Whether seeking remembrance of a city's fading past or reflecting on nature's fugitive atmospheric effects, Hutton sculpts with time; each film unfolds in silent reverie, with a series of extended single shots taken from a fixed position, harking back to cinema's origins and to traditions of painting and still photography.

Alanis Obomsawin
Through May 26

Alanis Obomsawin is one of Canada's most distinguished documentary filmmakers. A member of the Abenaki Nation, Obamsawin was raised on the Odanak reservation northeast of Montreal. Deeply absorbed in the history, traditional stories, and songs of her ancestors, she began her career as a singer, writer, and storyteller. In 1971 she made her first film, Christmas at Moose Factory, a documentary about Cree children. Since then, she has worked with the National Film Board of Canada to make over thirty documentaries on issues affecting First Nations peoples. Interweaving drawings, songs, music, and interviews, her films are distinguished by their original research, meticulous attention to historical detail, compassion for their contemporary subjects, and insight into the rights and lives of First Nations peoples.

Jazz Score
Through September 15

Comprising a film retrospective, a gallery installation, live concerts, and a panel discussion, Jazz Score celebrates some of the best original jazz composed for the cinema from the 1950s to the present. The film retrospective includes fiction features, experimental and animated shorts, and documentaries from countries as far ranging as France, Brazil, Japan, South Africa, and the U.S.  On May 17, Roman Polanski's Knife in the Water and Jerzy Skolimowski's Le Départ, both of which feature music by Krzysztof Komeda, will be screened in the theaters.  Then, on May 19, the Tomasz Stanko Quartet, with special guest Billy Harper, will perform a live concert tribute to Komeda. Other upcoming film screenings include Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up (music by Herbie Hancock); Orson Welles's Touch of Evil (music by Henri Mancini); and Peter Yates's Bullitt (music by Lalo Schifrin).

Modern Mondays
Ongoing

Where is the cutting edge of the motion picture? Discover it first at MoMA. Building upon the Museum's long tradition of exploring cinematic experimentation, Modern Mondays is the new weekly showcase for innovation on screen. Engage with contemporary filmmakers and moving image artists, and rediscover landmark works that have changed the way we experience film and media. On May 19, MoMA presents LoVid, the New York–based interdisciplinary artist duo Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus. Their work includes live video installations, sculptures, digital prints, patchworks, media projects, performances, and video recordings. They combine many opposing elements, contrasting hard electronics and soft patchworks; handmade items and machine-produced objects; and analog and digital. This multidirectional approach is reflected in the content of their work, simultaneously romantic and aggressive, wireless and wire-full. The artists present their performance Help Carry a Tune (2007) and perform with their Sync Armonica synthesizer.

Still Moving
Ongoing

MoMA presents a regular series derived exclusively from its film collection, featuring works that have been acquired and preserved by the Museum over the last seven decades. From May 21 through 30, MoMA presents two programs of short films by pioneering avant-garde film artist Maya Deren, including Meshes of the Afternoon, At Land, Meditation on Violence, and Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti.