Radiohead Artist Stanley Donwood Shares Poster for Film/Concert the bomb

Stanley Donwood, the artist behind Radiohead‘s artwork since 1994, is the art director behind a new film and concert experience called the bomb. It’s a film about the threat of nuclear warfare that will be projected on 360-degree floor-to-ceiling screens, and it will screen four times at Tribeca Film Festival on April 23-24. The film/concert experience was co-created by Eric Schlosser, Smriti Keshari, and Kevin Ford; the Acid will perform an original score at the screenings. Find Donwood’s poster for the film below.

Co-creator Smriti Keshari discussed Donwood’s involvement in the project:

Both Eric Schlosser and I have been a great admirer of Stanley’s work. The powerful visual identity he created for Polyfauna, and how brilliantly the music intersects with the visual world, speaks to the depth of Stanley’s work. When we first approached him about the bomb, we spoke at lengths about his connection to the nuclear issue, and attending his first CND demonstration as a teenager, and the gravity of those terrifying times. The same urgency and inescapable reality exists now. Yet, there’s almost a denial of it.

Stanley’s illustrations have a bold and political nature, underlined with modesty and humor. So of course when we first approached him to be the art director — he mentioned having no knowledge of moving pictures. Alongside his brother, the talented animator The Kingdom of Ludd, he has provided the bomb with a hallucinatory and visceral quality that combines archival film, government documents and bold animation. All of us are quite eager to see it come together for the first time on massive 360 degree screens—it could be quite shocking.

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