Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)
Anton Corbijn
- 2022
- Great-Britain
- Documentary
- 1h41mn
- Original version with French subtitles
- Color
Preview
Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Wings, Peter Gabriel, all those extraordinary record covers that haunt us, have one source: Hipgnosis, alias Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell. These brilliant resourceful creators understood that they “could make a work of art and sell it as a record cover”.
For his first documentary, Anton Corbjin delivers a splendid and poignant portrait, centered on Po’s testimony, mixing interviews of the artists today and archives, revealing the secrets behind famous artworks often through animated sequences. It’s a depiction of a golden age that saw the birth of progressive rock, an age of excess and creative explosions. Po and Storm were representative of an era when rockstars and graphic designers were artists.
Credits
- With : Paul McCartney, Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Noel Gallagher, Peter Gabriel, Robert Plant
- Screenplay : Trish D. Chetty
- Photography : Stuart Luck, Martijn van Broekhuizen
- Editing : Andrew Hulme
- Production : Trish D. Chetty, Ged Doherty, Colin Firth, Christian Holland, Guy Thompson
