Building on its commitment to creative voices, RIMOWA continues its RIMOWA Series with a new chapter focused on longtime friend of the Maison, composer Hans Zimmer, during the final stretch of his European tour The Next Level. Directed by French-Moroccan filmmaker Otman Qrita, the short-form film offers an intimate portrait of the composer between rehearsals, backstage transitions, and large-scale performances across Europe in 2026.
RIMOWA Series: a portrait of music and creative discipline
Conceived as an evolving documentary project, the RIMOWA Series traces cultural figures through movement—physical, sonic, and creative. This second episode turns to Zimmer, one of contemporary film music’s most influential voices.
The film avoids a conventional tour narrative, instead stitching together fragments of dialogue, pauses, and the constant exchange between sound, space, and collaboration. As Zimmer closes the European leg of his tour, the camera follows the architecture of his live production—where orchestral writing, electronic systems, and a vast 5U modular synthesizer converge on stage.
Design language: aluminium precision and mobile creativity
A key element of the project is a bespoke RIMOWA design created in dialogue with Zimmer’s creative world. The Maison adapts its Classic case, produced in Cologne, into a touring companion built for constant movement.
Defined by grooved anodised aluminium, polished silver hardware, and TSA-approved locks, the case operates as both tool and carrier. Inside, it mirrors Zimmer’s working environment, holding notes, devices, and ideas that move with him between rehearsals, cities, and performances.
The design echoes Zimmer’s description of a “head full of music,” turning that internal density into a precise, mobile object—part archive, part studio, part vessel.
The RIMOWA Series continues to frame travel as a creative condition in itself, where sound, memory, and design remain in constant dialogue.
Photography and video courtesy of RIMOWA
