NEW YORK, NY.- Museum of the Moving Image has appointed Michael Koresky as Senior Curator of Film, it was announced by Executive Director Aziz Isham.
“After a thorough search in which we received more than a hundred applicants and dozens of qualified candidates, we are pleased to welcome Michael Koresky to a new and elevated role at the Museum. Michael is an accomplished and experienced film programmer, writer, and editor, and we look forward to working with him in this capacity and seeing his ideas come to fruition,” said Isham.
“I am excited to take on this new role at the Museum, to continue and expand upon the legacy of my predecessors, and work with Aziz and my wonderful MoMI colleagues,” said Koresky. “Programming films for this venerable and vibrant New York City institution is a dream come true, and I cannot wait to engage with all kinds of audiences—from across Queens, throughout New York, and from around the world. The Museum’s reputation speaks for itself, and I look forward to fostering community and collaboration, and sharing my love of film, past and present, with our growing audience in our amazing Redstone Theater, one of the absolute best places in the city to experience a movie.”
Before working at Museum of the Moving Image, Koresky served as the Director of Editorial and Creative Strategy for Film at Lincoln Center; Director of Publications and Marketing for New York's Metrograph Theater; and Managing Editor and Staff Writer for the Criterion Collection. He continues to collaborate with the Criterion Collection as a guest programmer, curating and hosting the Criterion Channel series Queersighted, featuring conversations with prominent LGBTQ curators, writers, and filmmakers; and moderating conversations with filmmakers such as John Waters and Ari Aster for Criterion’s Adventures in Moviegoing series.
Koresky is the author of the upcoming book Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness (Bloomsbury, June 2025), which Publishers Weekly calls “Revelatory—a sterling work of film criticism.” He also wrote the books Films of Endearment (Hanover Square Press, 2021) and Terence Davies (University of Illinois Press, 2014), and has written essays for the Criterion Collection, Film Comment, Sight & Sound, Cinema Scope, The Village Voice, Film Quarterly, Cineaste, Filmmaker, The American Interest, and Indiewire. Koresky has served as an adjunct professor in the film and media departments at NYU and The New School. He has been serving on the Criterion Collection’s advisory board since 2021 and has been a member of the National Society of Film Critics since 2022.
Editorial Director at the Museum since June 2020, Koresky also co-founded and edits Reverse Shot, the Museum’s online film publication. (The Wall Street Journal called Reverse Shot “an online film journal whose continued existence asserts the vibrancy of both films and journals.”) and has co-programmed the Museum’s signature series See It Big since 2011. As Senior Curator of Film, he will oversee all film programming at the Museum, while continuing to serve as co-editor of Reverse Shot.
Koresky was the editor of the MoMI publications From Silent Films to Streaming: 100 Years of History at Kaufman Astoria Studios, and Todd Haynes: Rapturous Process and co-edited the Museum’s Reverse Shot publications CineVardaUtopia, Martin Scorsese: He Is Cinema, Steven Spielberg: Nostalgia for the Light, Reverse Shot: Twenty Years of Film Criticism in Four Movements. In 2016, Koresky was named one of the "100 Most Influential People in Brooklyn Culture" by Brooklyn Magazine. He is also the writer and co-director of the 2018 film Feast of the Epiphany, along with Reverse Shot co-editor Jeff Reichert and Farihah Zaman. The Los Angeles Times called the film "a meditative banquet of ideas" and Variety called "a tantalizing portrait of both the fascinating realities behind people’s day-to-day existences and of the role food plays in fostering communion with friends, colleagues and the larger natural world."
