The MoMI programme ran on two weekends from 17-25 March and presented a wide-ranging film series including lectures, personal appearances, and screenings of features, documentaries, silent films, video art, and newsreels, including Pat Kirkham's lecture on Hitchcock's Rear Window (1954) and Drake Stutesman's lecture on Howard Hawks's Fig Leaves (1926).

The theme of this dynamic programme was the deeply ambiguous relationship between film and fashion. The Festival investigateed how the moving image represents and interprets fashion as a concept, industry, and cultural form. Some of the films included in this series were William Klein's Who are You, Polly Maggoo?, Slava Tsukerman's Liquid Sky, Jennie Livingston's Paris is Burning, Bruce Weber's Chop Suey, Howard Hawks's Fig Leaves and David Byrne's directorial debut True Stories.

Between Stigma and Enigma was curated by Marketa Uhlirova and Christel Tsilibaris, with guest curators Roger K. Burton (festival co-founder), Alistair O'Neill, Adrian Garvey and Edward Barber. The programme was organized for the Museum by Chief Curator David Schwartz and Assistant Curator Livia Bloom.

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