Good Afternoon
Two screens, one festival and a kaleidoscope of counterculture from Phillip Noyce.
Directed by Phillip Noyce as one of his earliest experiments, GOOD AFTERNOON captures the 1971 Aquarius Arts Festival in Canberra in full psychedelic overload. Using two screens, layered sound and a roving camera, it documents ten thousand people doing their own thing – performing, protesting, celebrating, improvising. Less a documentary than a sensory jolt, it immerses the viewer in colour, energy and chaos. Funded by the Australian Union of Students, it remains a landmark in radical Australian filmmaking.
© Phillip Noyce.