To commemorate the 20th anniversary of Radiohead’s Kid A (2000) and its follow up album Amnesiac (2001), the British band dreamed up a wild and unsettling immersive experience to share with fans. Lockdown interrupted these plans, forcing the project to be reimagined as a virtual space realized through Unreal Engine.

Six years on, the project has been revived in the form of a customized audiovisual installation that is set to tour North America over the coming 10 months. The installation is called Motion Picture House and it will play the film Kid A Mnesia in three-week stints across Brooklyn, Chicago, Mexico City, and San Francisco. The first port of call is the music festival Coachella, where, beginning on April 10, the Motion Picture House will set up in a 17,000-square-foot underground bunker that was specifically created for Kid A Mnesia.

Poster for Radiohead’s Motion Picture House featuring Kid A Mnesia. Photo courtesy of AEG Presents.

The 75-minute film was directed by Sean Evans and features art created by Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood during the making of Kid A and Amnesiac. Donwood, who met Yorke while the pair were studying art at the University of Exeter in the 1980s, is responsible for all of the artwork of Radiohead. Visuals run to a soundtrack pulled from the band’s original studio recordings and will play out on surround sound. Beyond the screening room, galleries inside the Motion Picture House will display the source art.

What can fans expect from the experience? Yorke has described the film as presenting a narrative “in which a Monster is trapped in a derelict museum of the lost and forgotten.” Spooky. A trailer for Kid A Mnesia depicts the silhouette of a creature that appears like an emaciated minotaur creeping across as a crimson background. Soft ambient music accompanies the images that eventually fall on a stick figure puddled in its own blood. It is, Yorke said, “a relic of a time when technology could have saved us.”

Although the release of Kid A and Amnesiac was separated by a gap of eight months, their material was largely recorded during the same sessions and Radiohead originally conceived of them as a double album—as gestured to in 2021’s Kid A Mnesia’s boxset release. The Motion Picture House installation follows on from “This Is What You Get,” last year’s exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, the U.K., that displayed more than 180 of Donwood and Yorke’s artworks, offering an up close look at some of the most influential rock albums of the past quarter century.

As Donwood said at the time of the exhibition: “I find it hard to look at [the art] without hearing the music. It’s encoded.” Soon enough, fans across North America may know what he means.

Radiohead, which played its first concerts in seven years in 2025, is due to return to touring next year.