Coldplay are to release a short film they have teased for nearly five years.
The band announced the project, A Film for the Future, on Tuesday, calling the 44-minute movie a visual companion to their recent album Moon Music, which became their first Billboard 200 No 1 album in a decade last year.
The production is due to premiere worldwide on January 22, with a special immersive run of 360-degree screenings at the Lightroom in London, near King’s Cross, and there will be other screenings in Seoul, South Korea and Manchester.
“We’re very grateful to all the amazing artists who lent their genius to this film. They’ve created something very beautiful and we’re extremely proud of it,” members of Coldplay said. The band is made up of frontman Chris Martin, guitarist Jonny Buckland, bassist Guy Berryman and drummer and percussionist Will Champion plus manager Phil Harvey.
The film was created by over 150 different visual artists from 45 countries. Each artist was provided with a handful of music snippets from Moon Music for the final cut, and had been asked to create corresponding visuals, without any knowledge of other artists’ creations or the criteria they had been given.
The film combines the art they produced and is overseen by Ben Mor, who directed the video for the band’s 2016 Beyoncé collaboration, Hymn for the Weekend.
Mr Mor has described the upcoming short film as “a kaleidoscopic patchwork quilt – a 44-minute multimedia tapestry”.
He continued: “It was a huge privilege to have the bird’s eye view of such an ambitious project, working with so many incredible animators and filmmakers all working independently of each other. The final film is simply jaw-dropping and I can’t wait for Coldplay’s fans to see it.”
A Film for the Future was first teased on a car numberplate in the artwork to the 2019 album Everyday Life and a section of the project appeared in July 2024 as the lyric video for the band’s single feelslikeimfallinginlove.
Tickets are £25 and have already gone on sale and very few are left.
The experience will launch on the same day as a fan-led remix of the movie, powered by Microsoft AI.
