AQUARIUS (Aus Documentary) + Q&A with Director Wendy Champagne CLOSING NIGHT FILM
Wed, 30 Oct
|Caloundra
Aquarius is a film about the Festival in 1973 that transformed Nimbin forever and the power of change, that reaches down through generations today. It was consequential and the film features archive footage, interviews with organisers, participants and some bewildered locals. Cool soundtrack.
Time & Location
30 Oct 2024, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Caloundra, 2/11 Bulcock St, Caloundra QLD 4551, Australia
About the Event
AQUARIUS film Trailer HERE
Director: Wendy Champagne Producer: Sam Griffin
In May 1973, 10,000 artists, activists, hippies, radical students, gurus and visionaries descended on a small dairy town for 10 days of social and cultural exploration that changed a generation.
Those 10 days birthed an irrepressible movement that may have been the much-needed blueprint for sustainable change.
When thousands of young people travelled the back roads of Northern New South Wales 50 years ago to camp and explore a new way of living at Nimbin Aquarius Festival something unexpected happened amongst all the bliss, drugs and drama.
Through extensive collaboration and hours of precious newly-uncovered footage, the film directs our gaze to the Festival – its inception and its aftermath - and examines the power of that one event to continue to shape history. Aquarius is about the constant struggle between the establishment and the alternative, between community and the individual.
AQUARIUS features extensive archive footage including, interviews with the organisers and some hilarious on the spot interviews with some bewildered locals at the time. The soundtrack will bring back memories.
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