But the story isn't just about inflatable pigs and stuntmen in flames. That pig really did fly over Battersea Power Station (just about, see below for the details). The man on the cover of Floyd's Wish You Were Here really is on fire. In the era before Photoshop, all Hipgnosis could do to create unreal and surrealistic designs was to retouch photographs, physically combine images together either using collages or darkroom trickery and create the rest for real. Squaring The Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) - Official UK Trailer "There was a real love for Hipgnosis from the musicians." "All the people that they worked with that I wanted to talk to agreed to do it," Corbijn notes. The documentary features memories and anecdotes from Paul McCartney, Peter Gabriel, Graham Gouldman of 10cc, Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant and Jimmy Page and the three surviving members of Pink Floyd: Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Nick Mason. I got him to carry the story in the film he's the red ribbon through it all." "He had so many stories and I knew the sleeves - I had a lot of them in my home. "He's quite a persuasive character, so I said yes. "Po, who's the sole surviving member of Hipgnosis, came to Amsterdam to ask me to do this documentary," Corbijn told Radio X. His previous full-length film was the Joy Division biopic Control and the new documentary carries his signature black-and-white photography.Īubrey "Po" Powell and director Anton Corbijn during the making of the documentary Squaring The Circle (The Story Of Hipgnosis). The film is the first documentary from acclaimed photographer Anton Corbijn - a man who's created a few iconic covers himself, including U2's The Joshua Tree and Violator for Depeche Mode.
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