From May 6th through June 28th, 2026, the Agger Fish Building in Brooklyn becomes home to Motion Picture House, an immersive audiovisual installation shaped by the fractured universe of Radiohead. Developed by Thom Yorke and longtime collaborator Stanley Donwood, the project expands the spectral atmosphere of Kid A and Amnesiac into a sprawling environment of film, architecture, sculpture, and sound.
Built from imagery created during the recording sessions for the two albums, the installation pulls visitors into a disorienting landscape suspended between industrial ruin, dream logic, and cultural debris.
A Radiohead exhibition shaped by noise, memory, and ruin
Originally conceived during the pandemic as a virtual experience marking the twentieth anniversary of Kid A (2000) and Amnesiac (2001), Motion Picture House has since evolved into a large-scale touring installation. Following its debut at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival earlier this year, the project now occupies a cavernous Brooklyn warehouse that Yorke once described as “a derelict museum of the lost and forgotten.”
Inside, visitors move through flickering towers of vintage televisions, skeletal figures, cryptic signage, and vast prints of barren landscapes. Familiar symbols from Radiohead’s visual mythology—including the grinning bear and the crying minotaur—surface throughout the space like relics from a collapsing subconscious.
At the center sits KID A MNESIA, a 75-minute film directed by Sean Evans and projected across four monumental tilted screens rising nearly twenty-five feet high. Rather than remaining seated, audiences drift freely through the installation as the film shifts between distorted corridors, fragmented interiors, and surreal encounters.
Stanley Donwood’s visual world escapes the album sleeve
For decades, Stanley Donwood’s imagery has been inseparable from Radiohead’s identity. His collaborations with Thom Yorke forged the apocalyptic visual language surrounding Kid A and Amnesiac: jagged landscapes, fractured typography, and ominous figures suspended between satire and catastrophe.
Inside Motion Picture House, those images break free from the flatness of print and occupy physical space. Enlarged original artworks from the albums’ creation period surround the screening environment, exposing the visual DNA behind the installation and tracing the evolution of one of contemporary music’s most recognisable aesthetic universes.
Sound becomes architecture inside the ‘Motion Picture House’
Music moves through the installation as a physical force rather than background accompaniment. Newly remixed tracks from Kid A and Amnesiac, built from Radiohead’s original multitrack recordings, are rendered in immersive six-point surround sound that travels across the architecture itself.
Songs such as Everything in Its Right Place, Morning Bell, Idioteque, and Motion Picture Soundtrack pulse through the environment with disorienting proximity, blurring the boundary between cinema, installation art, and live sonic experience.
Following its Brooklyn run, Motion Picture House travels to Chicago from July 30th through August 23rd, Mexico City from October 27th through November 15th, and San Francisco from January 14th through February 7th, 2027.
