Radiohead’s Kid A installation

Coachella attendees spent Day 2 walking through Radiohead’s new “Motion Picture House: KID A MNESIA,” a bunker-sized film and art installation on the festival grounds. (ocregister.com) The project opened at the 2026 festival as a 75-minute audiovisual experience built around imagery Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood created during the making of *Kid A* and *Amnesiac*. Radiohead’s official site says the soundtrack is derived from the albums’ original multitracks. (nme.com) (kida-mnesia.com) At Coachella, the installation sits inside a purpose-built underground structure measuring 17,000 square feet with 38-foot ceilings beneath the Empire Polo Fields. All festival ticketholders can enter during the event. (consequence.net) The work grows out of *Kid A Mnesia*, Radiohead’s 2021 reissue project that paired *Kid A* from 2000 with *Amnesiac* from 2001 and additional material from the same era. The new installation turns that visual world into a walk-through environment instead of a record package or digital exhibit. (variety.com) (kida-mnesia.com) Coachella’s lineup had billed the attraction as “The Bunker Debut of Radiohead’s Kid A Mnesia,” which prompted speculation about a live set before the band clarified it was an installation. The touring announcement answered that question days before festival weekend. (rollingstone.com) (nme.com) After Coachella, “Motion Picture House: KID A MNESIA” is scheduled to move to Brooklyn from May 6 to May 31, Chicago from July 30 to August 23, Mexico City from October 27 to November 15, and San Francisco from January 14 to February 7, 2027. The official site lists two-hour entry blocks from Thursday through Sunday. (kida-mnesia.com) (consequence.net) Yorke described the film’s story as one “in which a Monster is trapped in a derelict museum of the lost & forgotten,” framing the project as part cinema, part gallery, and part archive from Radiohead’s early-2000s period. Donwood, the band’s longtime visual collaborator, is credited alongside Yorke throughout the project materials. (rollingstone.com) (kida-mnesia.com) So the Coachella attraction was not a reunion set or a surprise side performance. It was Radiohead turning one of its most visually dense album eras into a physical place fans could enter, room by room. (ocregister.com) (variety.com)