Opening Day Film Screening: Northern Waters

Celebrate the official launch of Rachel O'Rielly's feature-length documentary, Northern Waters with a screening at HBRG during the opening weekend.

Northern Waters (2025) is a feature-length video installation exploring complex aftermaths of the 1967–75 Save the Reef campaign, which successfully protected the Great Barrier Reef from the global oil industry.

At the time, Indigenous people in Queensland lived under apartheid conditions, and non-Indigenous artist/activists involved had no knowledge of the reef’s cultural heritage.

Today, as Indigenous governance is increasingly recognised in World Heritage reef and rainforest regions, hyper-real images of bleached coral circulate globally as symbols of climate crisis, while biodiversity policies continue to fail many at-risk species. 

Northern Waters runs daily from 7 March and continues until 17 May 2026. 

Free, all welcome.

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Image: Gallery view, Rachel O'Rielly Northern Waters, 2025