Though it will be popping up in theaters into June, Meeting People Is Easy — Grant Gee's on-the-road documentary about Radiohead's "OK Computer" tour — arrives in stores Tuesday in home video and DVD form.

The movie was inspired by a week of promotion that Gee filmed in Spain before OK Computer's release, during which he was caught by the way the "quite shy and polite" members of the group handled boorish paparazzi and repetitive media questions.

As a full-fledged film project, however, Meeting People Is Easy does more than depict a bunch of question and answer sessions. Filmed at various junctures during the group's world tour to promote OK Computer, the languidly paced 94-minute film also shows Radiohead traveling — by bus, plane, and cars — meeting fans, and working on new music in hotel rooms and during pre-show sound checks.

"Those were the nicest times for me," Gee says of the sound checks, "Because the hall's empty and the band members are relaxed. And toward the end of the tour they started working on newish stuff or reviving old stuff, so you'd have this wonderful thing happening that was written the night before or that they haven't played together before, and that was really exciting."

The filmmaker also became one of his own subjects when he taped the group's "No Surprises" video, which he directed. In it, front man Thom Yorke wore a helmet that was slowly filled with water. It makes for a great image in the video, but in Meeting People Is Easy, it's harrowing to watch the singer hold his breath — and his composure — over the course of nearly 50 takes that leave him coughing, sputtering, and near tears by the end.

"He's got an awful lot of pride," remembers Gee. "He's got a very good set of lungs, and he can actually hold his breath for a minute and a half. So when we said, 'OK, you've got to do it for 55 seconds,' he said 'OK, no problem.' And once he set himself up to do that, he couldn't reverse himself. But it was just a horrible thing to do. After each take I was like, 'Sorry, sorry, sorry…' I don't know if anyone will get it, but it's a way of reminding people that the person who makes the film is as much to blame for the nonsense these people have to go through as anyone else."