Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016

October 28, 2016–February 5, 2017 - The exhibition focuses on the ways in which artists have dismantled and reassembled the conventions of cinema screen, projection, darkness to create new experiences of the moving image. The exhibition will fill the Museum’s 18,000-square-foot fifth-floor galleries, and will include a film series in the third-floor theater. 

The exhibition’s title refers to the science fiction writer H.P. Lovecraft’s alternate fictional dimension, whose terrain of cities, forests, mountains, and an underworld can be visited only through dreams. Similarly, the spaces in Dreamlands will connect different historical moments of cinematic experimentation, creating a story that unfolds across a series of immersive spaces.