Last year the documentary Squaring The Circle (The Story Of Hipgnosis) was presented at the Telluride Film Festival about the work of Aubrey Powell and Storm Thorgerson, the founders of Hipgnosis, the company dedicated mainly to the design of album covers such as The Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Where Here and Animals, with interviews with musicians such as Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Peter Gabriel, Paul McCartney, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page among others, having another presentation of the documentary this year at Sundance Film Festival.
This documentary is directed by the well-known filmmaker and photographer of artists, Anton Corbijn and with this latest trend of now, it will have its theatrical release for now only in the USA this June 7.
Tickets in www.squaringthecirclefilm.com
SINOPSIS
“Scourge of management, record companies and album sleeve printers; Champion of bands, music, great ideas and high, infuriatingly high standards; Defender of the art over commerce at all times.” - Nick Mason, Pink Floyd on Hipgnosis.
Celebrated photographer, creative director and filmmaker Anton Corbijn’s first feature documentary SQUARING THE CIRCLE (THE STORY OF HIPGNOSIS) tells the story of Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell, the creative geniuses behind the iconic album art design studio, Hipgnosis, responsible for some of the most recognizable album covers of all time.
They formed Hipgnosis in Cambridge during the ferment of the sixties and became rock royalty during the boom time of the seventies.
They conjured into existence sights that no one had previously thought possible, produced visuals which popularized music that had previously been considered fringe, and were at the white-hot center of the maddest, funniest and most creative era in the history of popular music.
During this period, record companies didn’t dictate to acts like Peter Gabriel, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Paul McCartney what their LP covers should look like - Storm and Po did.
They made money; they lost money.
They did great things; they did silly things.
They fell out bitterly; they made up.
They never played a note, but they changed music.
The film features brand new interviews with Roger Waters, David Gilmour & Nick Mason of Pink Floyd, Jimmy Page & Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin, Paul McCartney, Peter Gabriel, Graham Gouldman of 10cc, Noel Gallagher, and many more.
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