40,000 Years of Dreaming

11/10/1997

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1hr 7min

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Documentary

,TV Movie

The British Film Institute Presents The Century of Cinema: Australia and New Zealand

STORY

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."

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • George Miller
  • Joseph Campbell

    Director

  • George Miller

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • BFI
  • Kennedy Miller Productions

    Production Countries

  • Australia
  • United Kingdom

LANGUAGES

  • English

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