Sloan Showcase: After Yang with Kogonada in person + Verse
Presented by Museum of the Moving Image
Saturday, November 7th, 2026 at 3:00 pm
Redstone Theater | Museum of the Moving Image
(36-01 35th Ave, Astoria, NY 11106, USA)
Part of MoMI's Science on Screen series
Tickets: $17.50 / $12 senior and students / $10 youth / free for MoMI members.
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.
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 Springs ShortFest; her feature screenplay Princess won NYU’s Purple List Table-Read Initiative, where it was staged in its entirety for producers and executives; and her latest short, Verse, received the Sloan Production Award for its exploration of VR and neuroscience and had its world premiere at the 2026 Tribeca Film Festival. Noam is also a producer on Forbidden Fruits (SXSW 2026), starring Lili Reinhart and Lola Tung and released theatrically by IFC, and Punter, a proof-of-concept film executive produced by Spike Lee and a finalist for the Student BAFTA.
Sappir Argov is an American actor and writer whose work spans film, podcasting, and live performance. She is a co-writer of Verse. Sappir starred in short films for top-tier MFA programs, including NYU Tisch and UCLA, as well as an independent short screened for producers at Blumhouse. She is also starring in two upcoming projects slated for release in 2026. Her commercial work includes a global travel campaign aired on NBC. In her writing, Sappir’s original podcast Passing Through ranked in the Top 100 narrative comedy shows on Apple Podcasts.