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Radiohead's Kid A Mnesia Motion Picture House Installation to Debut at Coachella
Radiohead's immersive audiovisual installation, Motion Picture House featuring Kid A Mnesia, will open at the Coachella festival on April 10, 2026, in a 17,000-square-foot bunker at the Empire Polo Fields in Indio, California. The experience includes a film with artwork by Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood, set to remixed tracks from the band's 2000 and 2001 albums, plus galleries displaying…
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Radiohead's Motion Picture House installation, centered on Kid A Mnesia, debuts at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on April 10, 2026. The event takes place in a newly constructed 17,000-square-foot bunker with 38-foot ceilings beneath the Empire Polo Fields in Indio, California. All festival ticket holders can access the installation.
The audiovisual experience features a film composed of artwork created by Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood during the production of Radiohead's albums Kid A and Amnesiac, released in 2000 and 2001, respectively. The soundtrack draws from original multitracks remixed for a six-point surround sound system.
Visitors can spend 75 minutes in the main show and additional time exploring adjacent galleries with full-scale reproductions of the era's artwork.
described the film's narrative as one in which a monster is trapped in a derelict museum of the lost and forgotten, a relic of a time when technology could have saved humanity.
“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.”
Kid A Mnesia originated as a 2021 box set anthology and a virtual exhibition directed by Sean Evans, released on the Epic Games Store and PlayStation 5 during the COVID-19 pandemic. The physical installation realizes the project's original intent for an in-person, enveloping experience.
Radiohead members will not perform or attend the events. The band resumed touring in 2025 after a hiatus since 2018, but no live shows are scheduled for the installations. Ed O'Brien stated that Radiohead plans to conduct 20 concerts annually on different continents starting in 2027, with 2026 reserved for a break.
