“Taken by Storm,” a new feature-length documentary film about prolific Pink Floyd sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson (pictured), will premiere at the South by Southwest (SxSW) festival next month.
The film will be shown three or four times during the festival, which runs March 11-20 in Austin, Texas.
According to the film’s director, Roddy Bogawa, Thorgerson is expected to attend most of the festival.
Bogawa reports Pink Floyd and EMI have been very supportive in the making of the film. “They’ve given me permission to use a one-minute clip from a helicopter shot over the beach at Devon where Storm shot ‘A Momentary Lapse of Reason’,” he says. “No one has ever seen this footage, I think, and it’s really amazing.
“Storm and Pink Floyd have done so much together it’s a big chunk of the film,” he adds. “There are sequences about ‘Atom Heart Mother,’ ‘Wish You Were Here,’ of course, ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ and ‘A Momentary Lapse of Reason,’ with footage from my interviews with David Gilmour and Nick Mason.”
