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.

After his long-time girlfriend dumps him, a thirty-year-old record store owner seeks to understand w...

In 1940, the German artist Charlotte Salomon (1917-43) undertook an extraordinary artistic adventure...

A French documentary or, one might say more accurately, a mockumentary, by director William Karel wh...

They come from all walks of life and have lived for almost a century. They have lived through the up...

The story of the black, gay origins of rock n' roll. It explodes the whitewashed canon of American p...
A musical, and also a reflection on watching, on trying to escape an anthropocentric gaze and also o...

A trio of female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960s, facing their own pers...

Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by...

Documentary devoted to the architectural and urban planning designs of Le Corbusier. The architect s...

Eric Leiser displays his boundless creativity in this short collection; A stunning compilation of wo...

Debunking the mythology surrounding the 16th century French prophet, Nostradamus.

Set in Berlin and New York's Lower East Side, The Great Yiddish Love stars the self-exiled Marlene D...

When "Take On Me" reached nr 1 on Billboard in the US in 1985, the dream came true. Or did it? The b...

Today London, tomorrow Paris, the day after New York – the life of the "jetsetter." Long before the ...

Berlin, summer 1988: While Michael Jackson and Pink Floyd perform in the West, East Berliners can lo...

The thousand-year-old tradition of pottery in the Indian subcontinent is now under threat. With the ...

On the same day that Stalin was buried, Sergei Prokofiev's funeral took place completely unnoticed. ...