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MomentsLA Memorial Coliseum

Free Larry Hoover Benefit Concert.

A stadium show and a global broadcast, built in 18 days.

A lone figure stands on the edge of the concrete Mound as smoke fills the Coliseum
ShowFree Larry Hoover
ScaleMoments
VenueLA Coliseum
Year2021
01 · 18 days

In December 2021, the LA Memorial Coliseum hosted a one-night benefit for prison and sentencing reform, headlined by Kanye West and Drake.

From first call to doors, the entire production had 18 days. A full stadium. A worldwide broadcast. One night, no second show.

Aerial of the Coliseum, the LA skyline behind, the full crowd lit by phones
02 · The Mound

PHNTM built it. Working with creative director Niklas Bildstein Zaar, PHNTM made the centerpiece real: "The Mound," a 200-foot-wide concrete stage.

It took 400,000 pounds of poured concrete to build. 72 projectors wrapped the stadium in light, smoke, and shifting color, turning a football field into one continuous environment.

Overhead of the round Mound, a lone figure in a spotlight through smoke
A figure with arms raised on the Mound, blue and pink smoke, lit platforms above
The Coliseum arches silhouetted, a flare of light bursting through
Figures arranged across the lit peristyle steps, beams cutting through
03 · The broadcast

The night couldn't only belong to the people in the seats.

PHNTM ran the global livestream across Amazon Music, Prime Video, and Twitch, and built the first live concert broadcast ever shown in IMAX theaters, putting the show on the biggest screens in the world while it happened.

On the biggest screens, and the smallestIMAX · Social
Kanye West and Drake perform together on the field under a full moon
Two figures cross the field through a wall of pink and orange smoke
A lone figure, arms outstretched, enveloped in pale blue smoke
6.9M.
People reached across 22 countries, all of it built in eighteen days.
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