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BELLINGEN: The Promised Land (2021)

Apr 21, 2021 Documentary 1h 44m
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The Untold Story of Bellingen's Hippie History.

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By the 1970s the global counter-culture movement had well and truly reached Australia, seeing young, educated hippies from well-to-do families moving to the Bellingen region to live an alternate lifestyle. Back then, Bellingen was a rundown, quiet country town with business in decline. Then, new ideas, new ways of living and a new status quo began to take control. What some called an influx of hippies, others called an invasion on the conservative lifestyle of farmers, causing a clash of ideals. Compiling countless hours of 8mm footage and historical photos, retired journo Peter Geddes and filmmaker Peter Gailley paint the historical landscape of how modern Bellingen came to be, following the cultural movement that eventually became the backbone of Bellingen’s identity.

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A review by Simon Foster
Written on April 22, 2021

"Utilising thousands of digitised frames from Geddes’ 8mm camera and intercutting the footage with the recollections of personalities from Bello’s cultural revolution, the documentary highlights the energised spirit of the hippie movement and the pulsating creativity injected by the ‘alternates’..."

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