Radiohead has announced Motion Picture House, an audiovisual installation built to house Kid A Mnesia, a film composed of artwork created by Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood during the making of the band’s landmark 2000 album Kid A and its follow-up, Amnesiac. The installation will debut this weekend at Coachella’s new 17,000-square-foot underground bunker buried beneath Empire Polo Fields.
Directed by Sean Evans, Kid A Mnesia was originally planned as a physical experience before transforming into a virtual world featured on the Epic Games Store and PlayStation 5 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Yorke describes the narrative for the new large-scale installation, which will feature a six-point surround system, as a story “in which a Monster is trapped in a derelict museum of the lost & forgotten.” Set to a score of the original multitracks from the Kid A and Amnesiac sessions, Motion Picture House will also host galleries featuring Yorke and Donwood’s art.
Watch the trailer below:
Following Coachella, Motion Picture House: Kid A Mnesia will enjoy a limited run in a handful of cities across North America, including New York, Chicago, and San Francisco.
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