Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)
Image courtesy of Anton Corbijn
Synopsis
In 1968, art students Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell made a trippy photo collage for their musician friends Syd, David and Roger. The resulting album and album cover, 'A Saucerful of Secrets', helped launch two careers: that of Pink Floyd, one of the 70s megabands, and of Hipgnosis, which, over the course of the next 25 years, designed a stream of iconic album covers. Photographer, filmmaker and designer Anton Corbijn fills his Hipgnosis history with case studies of album art from Pink Floyd’s 'Dark Side of the Moon', considered by many to be the greatest album art of all time, to Led Zeppelin’s mind-altering 'Houses of the Holy'. Fuelled by Powell's vivid storytelling, Corbijn captures the energy of a team making iconoclastic art amidst one of the most hedonistic eras in music history.
Official Selection Telluride Film Festival 2022 - World premiere
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2023
Details
- Year
- 2022
- Type of film
- Features
- Running Time
- 100 min
- Director
- Anton Corbijn
- Producer
- Trish Chetty, Ged Doherty, Colin Firth
- Co-Producer
- Christian Holland, Guy Thompson
- Executive Producer
- Nick Angel, George Chignell, Andrew Hulme
- Editor
- Andrew Hulme
- Screenwriter
- Trish D Chetty
- Director of Photography
- Martijn van Broekhuizen
- Sound
- Supervising Sound Editor: Andrew Stirk
- Music
- Music Supervisor: Iain Cooke
- Principal Cast
- With contributions from: Paul McCartney, David Gilmour, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Roger Waters, Noel Gallagher
Genre
Production status
Complete
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Last updated 6th January 2023
