Summer Music Season 2023
Squaring the Circle: The Story of Hipgnosis
Find out the story behind the design gurus Hipgnosis, who created the album covers for some of the most iconic albums of all time. Featuring Paul McCartney, Dave Gilmour, Noel Gallagher and more.
Director: Anton Corbijn
Cast includes: Aubrey "Po" Powell , Paul McCartney , David Gilmour, Noel Gallagher, Roger Waters, Jimmy Page
Screening as part of Summer Music Season 2023, presented by David Quantick
101 mins / 2023 / UK
Rock photographer turned director Anton Corbijn (Control, about Joy Division), brings us Squaring The Circle, the story of Hipgnosis, Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey "Po" Powell, the creative geniuses behind the iconic album art design studio, Hipgnosis, responsible for some of the most recognisable album covers of all time.
The studio began life in 1968 and for the next 15 years it enjoyed a glorious heyday and was responsible for generating album covers such as 10cc's Look Hear? LP, Peter Gabriel's Peter Gabriel, Hawkwind's Quark, Strangeness and Charm, Black Sabbath's Never Say Die! and of course, The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd. In the film you'll hear from Aubrey "Po" Powell , Paul McCartney , David Gilmour, Noel Gallagher and more.
"They [Hipgnosis] devised extraordinary images which were enigmatic, monolithic, audacious, funny, surreal, hip and gnomic and conceived albums as an unacknowledged multi-media experience: you gazed at the cover while the LP was on the turntable. Hipgnosis’s staggering location work in deserts and wildernesses and with flying pigs over London landmarks virtually made them pioneers of land art, the medium which grew up at about the same countercultural time," - The Guardian, 4 stars
Bring your fave album covers along for a chat after the film with about album art, with musician and artist, Ross Clifford.
Screening as part of Summer Music Season 2023. Check out the rest of the films in the series!
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Pop along before the screening (doors open 30 mins before the film start time) to see our Cinema Cats art exhibition, on display as part of Coastal Currents 2023 during September 2023.
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