MOCAM recognizes cinema as a major art form that has shaped the reality of the world over the past 125 years. That is why, acting in accordance with the museum's directives, the Screening Room seeks to establish MOCAM at the forefront of film exhibition and preservation beyond the boundaries of planet Earth.

For this reason, MOCAM's director Julio Orta has asked film curator Eduardo Thomas to oversee the programing and general operation of the Screening Room, with further research and related cinema and film resources forthcoming.

MOCAM's Screening Room is an eclectic space where imagined and experienced realities converge in compelling and meaningful ways. This convergence ignites a synergic drive that charts the convoluted relations that weave together the understanding of the human condition, while further complicating them beyond national, global, and/or geocentric narratives. In this way, MOCAM's Screening Room will become both a repository of cinema's ever radiant energy, while at the same time boost a series of conceptual waves onto which our imagination can gravitate.

The Screening Room envisions itself as a site of critical reflection and joyous gathering. It operates as a strictly non-commercial platform, put at the service of public interest. Founded on artistic and educational purposes, MOCAM's Screening Room understands films as cultural commons.

The Screening Room will provide continuous access to influential and notorious film productions of the past 100+ years, while orbiting towards lesser known works that are not otherwise readily available to wider audiences.