“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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