40,000 Years of Dreaming
The British Film Institute Presents The Century of Cinema: Australia and New Zealand
6.2/1019961h 7mReleased
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."
Released: Nov 23, 1996
Top Cast
George Miller
Self - Host / Narrator
Joseph Campbell
Self - Mythologist (archive footage)
