Eric Hynes Named Associate Curator of Film at MOMI

Museum of the Moving Image has appointed Eric Hynes as Associate Curator of Film. Hynes will join the Museum on October 26, and will work with Chief Curator David Schwartz, playing a key role in organizing and implementing the Museum's wide-ranging film screenings, personal appearances, and events.

Hynes is a Staten Island-born, Brooklyn-based film journalist and cultural critic. He writes a regular column about the art of documentary for Film Comment Magazine, and has written about film and media for The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Slate, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, Sight & Sound, and Indiewire, among other outlets. A writer for the Museum's online publication Reverse Shot since 2004, Hynes hosts and co-produces the Reverse Shot Talkies video interview series. In 2013, he was the first writer-in-residence at the True/False Film Fest, programming the Neither/Nor screening series and authoring a monograph about creative nonfiction in 1960s New York. He is a graduate of Northwestern University's creative writing program, received a Masters from NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute in Cultural Reporting & Criticism, and is a proud alumnus of Kim's Video, where he served as the chain's first book buyer.

"Eric Hynes brings tremendous passion, energy, and intelligence to everything he does," said David Schwartz. "On behalf of the Museum, I can say that we are thrilled to have him join our team. He will help expand the scope of the Museum's programming and help us connect with the many types of audiences we serve."