The mercurial guy like Storm and the more reasonable Po,” Gomez offers. “I think collaboration part of the history, and that’s how these two people made their mark. And even while Thorgerson elicits plenty of admiration for his skills and vision from the talking heads, in a hilarious montage they also refer to him as (varyingly) “rude,” “difficult,” “annoying,” “cantankerous,” and a “pain in the ass.” The duo’s relationship is also likened to “chalk and cheese.” Photo by Ray Gomez The closeness but also push-and-pull of the pair comes out clear, and Powell emerges here as the “sane” one. Though Thorgerson is featured in some archival footage and was himself the subject of the director Roddy Bogawa's 2011 doc Taken by Storm: The Art of Storm Thorgerson and Hipgnosis. And if we don’t show something like this, it probably won’t get seen.”Īs Thorgerson died in 2013, it’s up to Powell to guide viewers through most of the narrative in recent filmed interviews. “And this is about a time when rock and roll was the medium of youth. “We screen about 225 films a year, and while we have an art house identity, we show a lot of smaller documentaries like this,” says Ray Gomez, Assistant for Community Outreach & Administration Department of Film & Video at MFAH. It will show July 21-23 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The story of the company-and the fruitful-but-fractious relationship between its two founders on both personal and professional levels-is told in the new documentary from director Anton Corbijn, Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis). As teenagers, Thorgerson and Floyd’s Roger Waters even played on the same rugby team. That relationship began way back when they all went to school together. Hipgnosis did the bulk of their covers, including one of the most iconic in Classic Rock history-the rainbow prism of Dark Side of the Moon. Their most fruitful and famous collaborating partners though, were Pink Floyd. Rex ( Electric Warrior), Wishbone Ash ( Argus), Genesis ( The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway) and a litany of others including Black Sabbath, Bad Company, 10cc, UFO, the Scorpions, Yes and AC/DC. Film poster Founded by designer Storm Thorgerson and photographer Aubrey “Po” Powell, they churned out covers for Led Zeppelin ( Houses of the Holy, Presence), Paul McCartney and Wings ( Band on the Run, Venus and Mars), T.
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