Project Detail

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
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
Composer: Music Supervisor: Iain Cooke
Principal cast: With contributions from: Paul McCartney, David Gilmour, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Roger Waters, Noel Gallagher

Genre

Music Dance

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Raindog Films

18 Broadwick Street, 4th Floor
London
W1F 8HS

ged@raindogfilms.com

Sales Company

Rocket Science

140 Wardour Street
London
W1F 8ZT

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