Radiohead's Motion Picture House
Twenty-five years after Kid A rewired what rock music was allowed to sound like, Radiohead is making the world behind it an immersive experience. Originally conceived as a massive installation (Yorke once described the ambition as a "brutalist spacecraft crash-landed into classical architecture," with plans that Westminster City Council rejected and that COVID halted), it is now re-envisioned at Motion Picture House as a large-scale audiovisual installation. Built around a 75-minute film directed by Sean Evans, featuring artwork by Yorke and longtime collaborator Stanley Donwood made during the recording of Kid A and Amnesiac, and played through a custom six-point surround system on a newly remixed soundtrack from the original multitracks, the installation brings to life what Yorke describes as a monster trapped in a derelict museum of the lost and forgotten. It debuted in a purpose-built 17,000-square-foot underground bunker with 38-foot ceilings beneath the Coachella polo fields, before heading to Brooklyn, Chicago, Mexico City, and San Francisco through early 2027. Tickets cover two-hour slots: 75 minutes for the film, plus time to explore galleries of full-scale work from the era.
