In 1968, art students Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell made a trippy photo collage for their musician friends Syd, David and Roger. The resulting album and album cover, A Saucerful of Secrets, helped launch two careers: that of Pink Floyd, one of the 70s megabands, and of Hipgnosis, which, over the course of the next 25 years, designed a stream of iconic album covers.
Direction
Anton Corbijn films his fellow image-makers with reverent obsession.
Editing
Collage techniques mirroring Hipgnosis' own cut-and-paste brilliance.
Production
Archive footage so crisp you'll swear you smell darkroom chemicals.
Director
Anton Corbijn
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hipgnosis essentially invented the visual language of album-as-art-object, transforming 12-inch cardboard into gallery-worthy cultural artifacts before 'branding' was a dirty word.
Director Anton Corbijn—a legendary music photographer himself—films Hipgnosis with the same obsessive attention to image-making that defined his subjects, making this essentially a masterclass by a master about masters.
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