Radiohead‘s immersive, multimedia “Motion Picture House” installation Kid A Mnesia will make its debut at Coachella this weekend, beginning on April 10. All ticketholders will be able to enter the Empire Polo Fields’ 17,000-square-foot bunker (with 38-foot ceilings) to experience a film featuring artwork by Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood made while the band was working on their Kid A and Amnesiac albums, released in 2000 and 2001, respectively. The visuals run to a soundtrack of Radiohead’s music, culled from the original multitracks (played in six-point surround sound), and the Motion Picture House will display the artists’ full-scale art from the period in galleries. (Although the band played its first tour dates since 2018 last year, the band members will not be there.)
A trailer shows the silhouette of a creature with horns and spindly fingers tiptoeing against a red background until it finds human-looking silhouettes in a white background. Ambient music plays around the imagery. Thom Yorke described the film’s narrative in a statement: “In which a Monster is trapped in a derelict museum of the lost & forgotten. A relic of a time when technology could have saved us.”
After Coachella, Radiohead will move the Motion Picture House installation to Brooklyn, Chicago, Mexico City, and San Francisco for multi-week residencies into next year. Tickets to these events will be available through Fair AXS. Fans can pre-register for tickets via a bespoke website, which will notify registrants at random if they have the opportunity to buy tickets. A general on-sale will begin at 10 a.m. local time on April 24.
Fans will be able to visit the installation in two-hour slots. They should expect to spend 75 minutes taking in the audiovisual show and use the rest of the time exploring the gallery.
Kid A Mnesia, which is also the title of a box set anthology the band released in 2021, was previously an exhibition directed by Sean Evans that came out during the Covid lockdown era on the Epic Games Store and on PS5. Motion Picture House is how Radiohead intended fans to experience the project.
Although this is not a Radiohead concert, the band’s Ed O’Brien recently told Rolling Stone they’ve figured out a way to tour that feels sustainable to them. “What we’re going to do is, every year we’re going to do a different continent, and we’re going to do 20 shows each year,” he said. “No more, no less.” That said, they’re taking 2026 off, so fans will have to wait until next year to find out which continent they’ll be playing next.
Motion Picture House: Kid A Mnesia residency dates:
May 6 – 31: Brooklyn @ Agger Fish Building
July 30 – Aug. 23: Chicago @ Cinespace Studio
Oct, 27 – Nov. 15: Mexico City @ La Maravilla Studios
Jan. 14 – Feb. 7, 2027: San Francisco @ Palace of Fine Arts
