Sloan Showcase: After Yang with Kogonada in person + Verse

EMBODIED TECHNOLOGY With directors Kogonada and Noam Argov in person After Yang. Dir. Kogonada. 2022, 96 mins. With Colin Farrell, Justin H. Min, Jodie Turner-Smith, Haley Lu Richardson, Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja. When his young daughter’s technosapien companion, the android Yang (Min), malfunctions, Jake (Farrell) must come to terms with what this loss means for his family. Adapted from a short story by Alexander Weinstein, and directed with aesthetic precision and restraint by Kogonada, the director of tender films about interpersonal connection such as Columbus and this year’s Zi, After Yang is a sensitive and visually striking inquiry into what it means to be human. Preceded by Verse. Dir. Noam Argov. 2026, 18 mins. With Taj Cross, Jesse LaTourette, Will Dagger. Seventeen-year-old Adam is forced to confront where his virtual persona ends and his physical self begins when he decides to meet his VR girlfriend in real life. Both of these films have received recognition and/or support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s program in Public Understanding of Science and Technology. Tickets: $17.50 / $12 senior and students / $10 youth / free for MoMI members. There is a $1.50 transaction fee per ticket for all online purchases. The cost of admission may be applied toward a same-day purchase of a membership. Order tickets. Please pick up tickets at the Museum’s admissions desk upon arrival. All seating is general admission. Visitors are encouraged to view the exhibition Overexposed: Art, Technology, and the Body, which can be added on to their film ticket for $2.50. Special Guests: Kogonada is a writer and director. His first feature, Columbus, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017. Noam Argov is an award-winning writer/director and National Geographic Explorer whose work explores identity and the spaces between worlds. Her 2023 narrative short Sulam (Ladder) premiered in competition at Aspen Shortsfest and won Best U.S. Student Film at Palm…