{"title": "Embodied Technology: After Yang + Verse with directors Kogonada and Noam Argov in person", "start": "2026-11-07T15:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum of the Moving Image", "address": "35th Avenue, 11106 Astoria", "price": "$17.50 / $12 senior and students / $10 youth / free for MoMI members", "price_from": "17.50", "price_to": "17.50", "tickets_url": "https://altru1282.sky.blackbaud.com/1282/tickets?tab=2&txobjid=e437aaa2-c4d1-4855-bb86-670c034d81ac", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/science-fiction-drama", "science/ai"], "description": "An in-person film event pairing two features about technology and human connection, shown in the museum's Redstone Theater. After Yang, directed by Kogonada, follows Jake, who must come to terms with what the malfunction of Yang, his young daughter's android companion, means for his family; adapted from a short story by Alexander Weinstein, it stars Colin Farrell, Justin H. Min, Jodie Turner-Smith, Haley Lu Richardson and Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja. It is preceded by Verse, directed by Noam Argov, in which seventeen-year-old Adam decides to meet his VR girlfriend in real life and confronts where his virtual persona ends and his physical self begins, with Taj Cross, Jesse LaTourette and Will Dagger. Both directors appear in person, and both films have received recognition or support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's program in Public Understanding of Science and Technology.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/embodied-technology-after-yang-verse-with-directors-kogonada-75465/", "official_url": "https://movingimage.org/event/embodied-technology/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a92ba434a9bdeacb8dedd130a93187c254c05d88aa69f004beac2931978a50b6-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-07T15:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum of the Moving Image", "address": "35th Avenue, 11106 Astoria", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "zi", "start": "2026-11-06T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://t.metrograph.com/Ticketing/visSelectTickets.aspx?cinemacode=9999&txtSessionId=31284", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "The screening of the experimental drama \"zi\" is followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Kogonada and actors Michelle Mao, Haley Lu Richardson, and Jin Ha, and producer Christopher Radcliff. Kogonada's fourth feature follows the title character, played by Michelle Mao, a concert violinist whose aimless peregrinations through the streets of Hong Kong are interrupted by visions of what may be either her past or future, a condition she attempts to explain to a new American acquaintance (Haley Lu Richardson) while a stranger (Jin Ha) observes the pair from a distance. A valentine to the textures and colors of the Fragrant Harbor as seen by night, featuring music by the late Ryuichi Sakamoto, the formally audacious, shot-on-the-fly film is one of unusual delicacy and reserve, whose air of mystery abides long after the credits have rolled.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/zi-56697/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005068-zi/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7952eef12c2146948739e6085dfb18e7afb925b580212e0172ae0a533e363e33-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Klara and the Sun", "start": "2026-10-30T12:45:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Lower Manhattan", "address": "Liberty Street 28, 10005 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.nyc.com/shop/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/science-fiction"], "description": "Klara and the Sun is a science fiction drama comedy adapted from Kazuo Ishiguro's bestselling novel. Written and directed by Academy-Award winner Taika Waititi, it follows Klara (Jenna Ortega), an Artificial Friend searching for the perfect home. When Klara meets Josie (Mia Tharia), the two sense kindred spirits, and Klara's innocent wonder and loyalty begin to heal Josie's family, scarred by loss and Josie's fraught bond with her mother (Amy Adams).", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/klara-and-the-sun-66091/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6c89756595570c87bf263f89c1b3c68cf956c526f292aa1cf4ccd3e97e8711f5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Columbus", "start": "2026-11-08T16:15:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://t.metrograph.com/Ticketing/visSelectTickets.aspx?cinemacode=9999&txtSessionId=31310", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "Columbus is Kogonada's lauded first feature, in which modern architecture acts as a vehicle for emotional expression. Its title refers to the Indiana city that has commissioned buildings from masters including I.M. Pei, Eero Saarinen, and Robert Venturi, thanks to the patronage of Cummins cofounder J. Irwin Miller. A Korean American translator (John Cho) arrives there after his estranged scholar father falls ill, crossing paths with his father's protégée (Parker Posey), an aesthete library clerk (Haley Lu Richardson), and a bevy of singular structures. A film of rich colors and muted yearning, it is one of the most distinctive debuts of the last decade of American independent cinema.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/columbus-56713/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005076-columbus/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1b6c14bdc1375d220aaf4d731dc3cc5aa011198efc09dee74f51864f9f86853b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Yi Yi", "start": "2026-11-03T15:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://t.metrograph.com/Ticketing/visSelectTickets.aspx?cinemacode=9999&txtSessionId=31320", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/family-drama"], "description": "Edward Yang's 2000 film Yi Yi observes the interplay between three generations of an upper middle-class Taipei family. The last work of a master filmmaker who died far too young, it is gentle, restrained, and terribly humane. Comic in its dealings with the foibles of its excellent ensemble cast and the mores of the urban bourgeoisie, it is also possessed by an air of unmistakable melancholy and lingering regret at missed opportunities. An epic-length work without a hint of bombast, it works its way into the hidden spaces of everyday people's emotional lives, as rich and as sad as life itself.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/yi-yi-56686/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999001293-yi-yi/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c664208e384d3583a3624d1b75e222c88b76ef4710406efec17fee3a13538792-2000.webp"}, {"title": "King of the Yees: Lauren Yee, Francis Jue and David Henry Hwang", "start": "2026-11-02T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-02T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "Asia Society", "address": "Park Avenue 725, 10021 New York", "price": "Non-Members $30, Members $20, Students/Seniors $5 off with code SENSTU", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "30.00", "tickets_url": "https://asiasociety.org/new-york/asiastore", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["stage/theatre", "society"], "description": "An in-person conversation with three theatermakers at Asia Society about the New York premiere of Lauren Yee's play King of the Yees at Signature Theatre. Playwright and screenwriter Lauren Yee, Tony-winning actor Francis Jue and playwright David Henry Hwang discuss sharing the notion of family in their work, their stories of their fathers and portraying them on stage. The play tells of Larry Yee, a driving force in San Francisco Chinatown and the heart of the Yee Fung Toy Family Association, whose daughter Lauren sets off on a surreal quest to find him when he disappears. The three also discuss Asian American families, lineages and storytelling in the theater.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/king-of-the-yees-lauren-yee-francis-jue-and-david-henry-hwan-51114/", "official_url": "https://asiasociety.org/new-york/events/king-yees-lauren-yee-francis-jue-and-david-henry-hwang", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4da3c74d6f0d4360d2666502efc7441c94a2668c26591041d11ec114857b3cd0-600.webp"}, {"title": "Memo Akten & Katie Hofstadter: The Thinking Ocean", "start": "2026-01-01T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-12-31T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Whitney Museum of American Art", "address": "Gansevoort Street 99, 10014 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://whitney.org/admission", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/digital-art", "science/ai"], "description": "The Thinking Ocean is a digital artwork at the Whitney Museum of American Art that simulates a dynamic body of water, shifting between the physics of fluids and the logic of code. It is created by Memo Akten and Katie Hofstadter, interdisciplinary artists and researchers who explore how emerging technologies such as AI interact with embodied, emotional, and ecological human experience. Viewers navigate an underwater scene of drifting particles and bubbles that morphs into patterns recalling cells, circuitry, and code, accompanied by a voice reciting a poem generated in real time. The work highlights our bias toward granting agency to machines while overlooking the complex computations unfolding in natural systems.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/memo-akten-katie-hofstadter-the-thinking-ocean-67477/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3a4662c4429b89333467bde89fd4c969a42992098699f042c3dafd9492162b9c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Shimmer: Dreaming the Posthuman", "start": "2026-09-25T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-03T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Gladstone Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 530, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://fristartmuseum.org/tickets/", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/digital-art", "nature/animals"], "description": "\"Shimmer: Dreaming the Posthuman\" is an exhibition featuring 17 artists who work with both analog and emergent technologies to visualize the interrelationship between humanity, other species, and the earth itself. Organized by the Frist Art Museum, it presents artists such as Ian Cheng, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Marguerite Humeau, Josèfa Ntjam, Jacolby Satterwhite, and Saya Woolfalk, who use digital animation, augmented and virtual reality, motion capture, and generative software to challenge the view that human exceptionalism allows us to ignore caring for the more-than-human world. The exhibition unfolds in three sections: one biological and ecological, focused on extinction, evolution, and interspecies entanglement; one psychological, with playful stories of metamorphosis; and one ontological, bridging ancestral and contemporary belief systems to reawaken humanity's sense of interconnectedness with the earth.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/shimmer-dreaming-the-posthuman-66526/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5d68746237d2e63dab180e1280a43434aa9c5bbb53994f3472f619d73d7e34e1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Je t'aime, je t'aime", "start": "2026-11-08T14:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://t.metrograph.com/Ticketing/visSelectTickets.aspx?cinemacode=9999&txtSessionId=31303", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/science-fiction"], "description": "A screening of the film \"Je t'aime, je t'aime\". Director Alain Resnais made this 1968 film, which stars Claude Rich as an unsuccessful suicide who, leaving hospital, agrees to take part in a time-travel experiment that brings fragments of his past rushing back in disordered shards. It has been called a quiet mixture of science fiction with a love story as subtle as anything in Rohmer or Rivette. The showing on this day includes an introduction by filmmaker Kogonada.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/je-taime-je-taime-56712/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005075-je-taime-je-taime/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2d72a08359092aafd569f1b58900281643fafa0baba48bc5466ec8405095e735-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Thalia Book Club: Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey", "start": "2026-11-02T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre at Symphony Space", "address": "", "price": "USD 34", "price_from": "34.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction/science-fiction"], "description": "The Thalia Book Club holds a discussion and audience Q&A on Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2001: A Space Odyssey. The Thalia Book Club is behind it, with Marie-Helene Bertino (Exit Zero, Beautyland) leading a panel that includes Rivka Galchen (Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch) and Alice Sola Kim (The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy). The panel discusses Clarke's enduring novel about space exploration, the perils of technology, and the limits of human power, connecting it to today's questions about AI. The event lasts 1hr 15min and includes no book signing.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/thalia-book-club-arthur-c-clarkes-2001-a-space-odyssey-66926/", "official_url": "https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/47757-thalia-book-club-arthur-c-clarkes-2001-a-space-odyssey", "image": "https://noky.io/images/53c18f06aaf0fe005bd9fe249fdb2fb42e18dbffb49c57a019962d96b383dea3-2000.webp"}]}