Kent Museum of the Moving Image

14/06/2026

On Friday 10th July we preview film historian Ian Christie's 🆂🅾🆅🅸🅴🆃 🅲🅸🅽🅴🅼🅰 talk (Saturday 11th) with a special screening of 𝓘𝓿𝓪𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓣𝓮𝓻𝓻𝓲𝓫𝓵𝓮 𝓟𝓪𝓻𝓽 𝓘𝓘 (Sergei Eisenstein, 1946; 1hr 28mins).

“Navigating the deadly waters of Stalinist politics, Eisenstein was able to film two parts of his planned trilogy about the troubled sixteenth-century tsar who united Russia. Visually stunning and powerfully acted, Ivan the Terrible charts the rise to power and descent into terror of this veritable dictator. Though pleased with the first instalment, Stalin detested the portrait in the second film—with its summary executions and secret police—and promptly banned it.” (The Criterion Collection)

For more details and tickets for both events, please visit kentmomi.org/events

11/06/2026

Announcing a new film season at Kent MOMI, marking 100 years since silent cinema reached its extraordinary peak as an international art form.

𝐌𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐊𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐒𝐈𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐂𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐌𝐀, 𝟏𝟗𝟐𝟒–𝟏𝟗𝟐𝟔: 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐬 & 𝐑𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 celebrates both acknowledged masterpieces and bold rediscoveries from across the world, offering a rich cross-section of styles, from realism and psychological drama to avant-garde experimentation.

The first three films in the season are...

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐡 (𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐧; 𝐔𝐒𝐀, 𝟏𝟗𝟐𝟓) - Friday 26th June

𝐏𝐨 𝐙𝐚𝐤𝐨𝐧𝐮 [𝐁𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐰] (𝐋𝐞𝐯 𝐊𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐯; 𝐔𝐒𝐒𝐑, 𝟏𝟗𝟐𝟔) - Friday 3rd July

𝐃𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐳𝐭𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐧 [𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐋𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡] (𝐅.𝐖. 𝐌𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐮; 𝐆𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲, 𝟏𝟗𝟐𝟒) - Friday 17th July

𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐭-𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐦 - Friday 24th July
Ballet mécanique (dir. Fernand Léger, 1924)
La Coquille et le Clergyman [The Seashell and the Clergyman] (dir. Germain Dulac, 1928)
Paris qui dort [The Crazy Ray] (dir. René Clair, 1924)

ꜰᴏʀ ꜰᴜʟʟ ᴅᴇᴛᴀɪʟs ᴀɴᴅ ᴛᴏ ʀᴇsᴇʀᴠᴇ ᴘʟᴀᴄᴇs, ᴘʟᴇᴀsᴇ ᴠɪsɪᴛ kentmomi.org/events

10/06/2026

In conjunction with our recently opened exhibition, ‘Terence Marsh & Production Design’, we welcome Professor Ian Christie to the museum on 𝒮𝒶𝓉𝓊𝓇𝒹𝒶𝓎 11𝓉𝒽 𝒥𝓊𝓁𝓎 to give a special talk; 🆂🅾🆅🅸🅴🆃 🅲🅸🅽🅴🅼🅰 – 🅽🅾🆃 🅹🆄🆂🆃 🅶🆁🅴🅰🆃 🅳🅸🆁🅴🅲🆃🅾🆁🆂 🅱🆄🆃 🅶🆁🅴🅰🆃 🅳🅴🆂🅸🅶🅽🅴🆁🆂 🆃🅾🅾.

Ian unfolds a penetrating analysis of the obscured designers of such major Soviet classics as Kozintsev and Trauberg’s 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓝𝓮𝔀 𝓑𝓪𝓫𝔂𝓵𝓸𝓷, Eisenstein’s 𝓐𝓵𝓮𝔁𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻 𝓝𝓮𝓿𝓼𝓴𝔂 &𝓘𝓿𝓪𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓣𝓮𝓻𝓻𝓲𝓫𝓵𝓮 𝓟𝓪𝓻𝓽 𝓘𝓘, as well as Kozintsev’s great Shakespeare films. Is it too late to start reclaiming credit for those who designed and built these enduring classics?

For details please visit kentmomi.org/events

07/06/2026

On Saturday 11th July we welcome Ian Christie to the museum to give a special talk, '🆂🅾🆅🅸🅴🆃 🅲🅸🅽🅴🅼🅰 – 🅽🅾🆃 🅹🆄🆂🆃 🅶🆁🅴🅰🆃 🅳🅸🆁🅴🅲🆃🅾🆁🆂 🅱🆄🆃 🅶🆁🅴🅰🆃 🅳🅴🆂🅸🅶🅽🅴🆁🆂 🆃🅾🅾!'

Ian, Emeritus Professor of Film and Media History, Birkbeck College, University of London, is the most wide-ranging British film critic-historian of the past 30 years, a champion of the work of John Box, featured in Kent MOMI’s new design exhibition (‘Terence Marsh & Production Design’), and a renowned expert on Soviet cinema.

Professor Christie unfolds a penetrating analysis of the obscured designers of such major Soviet classics as Kozintsev and Trauberg’s 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓝𝓮𝔀 𝓑𝓪𝓫𝔂𝓵𝓸𝓷, Eisenstein’s 𝓐𝓵𝓮𝔁𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻 𝓝𝓮𝓿𝓼𝓴𝔂 & 𝓘𝓿𝓪𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓣𝓮𝓻𝓻𝓲𝓫𝓵𝓮 𝓟𝓪𝓻𝓽𝓼 𝟏 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝟐, and Kozintsev’s great Shakespeare films.

The talk is previewed on Friday 10th July with a screening of 𝓘𝓿𝓪𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓣𝓮𝓻𝓻𝓲𝓫𝓵𝓮 𝓟𝓪𝓻𝓽 𝓘𝓘

For more info see kentmomi.org/events

31/05/2026

On Saturday 6th June, Kent MOMI is very proud to host its very own designer, to whom we owe logo, cabinet design, posters, and a great deal more, the brilliant Neal Potter -- designer of the original London MOMI, the National Cold War Exhibition, the Natural History Museum, and numerous international museums -- and a man renowned for thinking outside the box, with the freshest of fresh eyes.

Neal will talk not just about his design career, but, unusually, about the film designers who have influenced his work, including Ken Adam, inimitable master of the aesthetics of speed and power (Dr Strangelove, the Bond films) and Terence Marsh, the subject of our current major exhibition, the unexpected and suggestively innovative designer of The Hunt for Red October (1990). More evidence of his exceptional eye: for Red October is not only Neal's favourite film, but the favourite film (curator Joss's high-placed US spy reveals) of the heads of NASA and the American military -- on whom, too, it had a significant influence. (Free pre-talk screening on Friday 5th: see Events)

TICKETS £15 via kentmomi.org/events includes glass of wine or coffee / tea / soft drink in the museum garden, with the speaker and curators. Doors open at 4.30pm; talk begins at 5.15pm; event ends at 6.30pm.

Image: Ken Adam's design for the "War Room" of Dr Strangelove, a copy of which (signed to himself), Neal has gifted to Kent MOMI, and appears in our Design exhibition.

26/05/2026

In support of designer Neal Potter’s talk and Q&A at the museum on Saturday 6th June (see EVENTS), Kent MOMI will screen his favourite film, THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER on June 5th. The screening also has a personal note as our curator, Joss’ father, Terence Marsh was the film’s production designer, responsible for the film's acclaimed, realistic submarine interior sets, working alongside art director William Cruse and set designer Mickey S. Michaels, for which he was nominated a BAFTA. Starring Sean Connery & Alec Baldwin, the film was nominated for a total of three BAFTAS and three Oscars, winning the latter for Best Effects.

📽️Doors open 5.30, for drinks, nibbles & classic cocktails.

📽️Film starts 6.30 with a brief introduction from the curators.

📽️Entry is free with a yearly ticket, although we suggest a small donation of £5 per person to help keep the lights on. Yearly tickets can be purchased on the door (£7.50 adult / £6.00 concessions).

See kentmomi.org/events to reserve a place.

24/05/2026

On 𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 we welcome original Museum of the Moving Image designer Neal Potter to present a talk 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐏𝐢𝐭 𝐏𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐱𝐡𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 following his career journey from his formative years in a Derbyshire mining village, through art school and on to travelling the world designing international exhibitions and museums, such as the original MOMI.

For those of you who don't know, the original Museum of the Moving Image was located on London's Southbank and operated by the BFI. It was opened by Prince Charles in 1988, and was at the time, was the world's largest museum devoted entirely to cinema and television. It was put together by a team that included our own David Francis OBE with his colleagues David Robinson and Charles Beddow. The museum closed in 1999, Kent MOMI opening in 2018.

Neal recalls his journey – the charity work – the lucky breaks – the sleepless nights – the lost exhibits - the crazy clients - the passionate clients - a constant desire to be creative and, the need to stay financially viable. The talk will be followed by a short Q&A.

Neal is a film-inspired designer of both Kent MOMI and the original Museum of the Moving Image.

ᴡʜᴇɴ: Saturday 6th June, 4.30pm-6.30pm
ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ: Kent MOMI, Stanhope Road
ᴛɪᴄᴋᴇᴛs £¹⁵ (includes complimentary glass of wine or tea/coffee)

kentmomi.org/events

Neal's talk is previewed by a screening of his favourite film, ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴜɴᴛ ꜰᴏʀ ʀᴇᴅ ᴏᴄᴛᴏʙᴇʀ, on Friday 5th (see EVENTS)

Kent Museum of the Moving Image: From Shadows to Film… …and all the magic in between! Kent MOMI is a not-for-profit museum that explores the deep history of the moving image — from the days of candle-lit magic lantern performances and hand-painted slides, through Victorian visual e

20/05/2026

On 𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 we welcome original Museum of the Moving Image designer Neal Potter to present a talk 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐏𝐢𝐭 𝐏𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐱𝐡𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 following his career journey from his formative years in a Derbyshire mining village, through art school and on to travelling the world designing international exhibitions and museums, such as the original MOMI.

For those of you who don't know, the original Museum of the Moving Image was located on London's Southbank and operated by the BFI. It was opened by Prince Charles in 1988, and was at the time, was the world's largest museum devoted entirely to cinema and television. It was put together by a team that included our own David Francis OBE with his colleagues David Robinson and Charles Beddow. The museum closed in 1999, Kent MOMI opening in 2018.

Neal recalls his journey – the charity work – the lucky breaks – the sleepless nights – the lost exhibits - the crazy clients - the passionate clients - a constant desire to be creative and, the need to stay financially viable. The talk will be followed by a short Q&A.

Neal is a film-inspired designer of both Kent MOMI and the original Museum of the Moving Image.

ᴡʜᴇɴ: Saturday 6th June, 4.30pm-6.30pm
ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ: Kent MOMI, Stanhope Road
ᴛɪᴄᴋᴇᴛs £¹⁵ (includes complimentary glass of wine or tea/coffee)

Neal's talk is previewed by a screening of his favourite film, ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴜɴᴛ ꜰᴏʀ ʀᴇᴅ ᴏᴄᴛᴏʙᴇʀ, on Friday 5th (see EVENTS)

17/05/2026

On Saturday 6th June we welcome original Museum of the Moving Image designer Neal Potter to the museum to present a talk 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐏𝐢𝐭 𝐏𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐱𝐡𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 following his career journey from his formative years in a Derbyshire mining village, through art school and on to travelling the world designing international exhibitions and museums.

Neal recalls his journey – the charity work – the lucky breaks – the sleepless nights – the lost exhibits - the crazy clients - the passionate clients - a constant desire to be creative and, the need to stay financially viable. The talk will be followed by a short Q&A.

Neal is a film-inspired designer of both Kent MOMI and the original Museum of the Moving Image, on London's Southbank (pictured).

ᴡʜᴇɴ: Saturday 6th June, 4.30pm-6.30pm
ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ: Kent MOMI, Stanhope Road
ᴛɪᴄᴋᴇᴛs £¹⁵ (includes complimentary glass of wine or tea/coffee)

Neal's talk is previewed by a screening of his favourite film, ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴜɴᴛ ꜰᴏʀ ʀᴇᴅ ᴏᴄᴛᴏʙᴇʀ, on Friday 5th.

kentmomi.org/events