40,000 Years of Dreaming
“The British Film Institute Presents The Century of Cinema: Australia and New Zealand”
1996•1h 7m•6.4•Released
DocumentaryTV Movie
Australian-born filmmaker George Miller offers a personal view of Australian films. He suggests that they can be regarded as visual music, public dreaming, mythology, and song-lines. In extrapolating the idea of movies as song-lines he examines feature films under the following categories: songs of the land; the bushman; the convicts; the bush-rangers; mates and larrikins; the digger; pommy bashing; the sheilas; gays; the wogs; blackfellas; and urban subversion. He then concludes that these films can be thought of as "Hymns that sing of Australia."
Director
George Miller
Writer
George Miller
Languages
English
Studio
BFI
Cast
George Miller
Self - Host / Narrator
Joseph Campbell
Self - Mythologist (archive footage)
Production
Company
BFI
Company
Kennedy Miller Productions
Producer
Doug Mitchell
Producer
George Miller
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