40,000 Years of Dreaming

40,000 Years of Dreaming

1996
1h 7m
6.2

6.2/10

6 votes • View on IMDb
Documentary TV Movie

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

Overview

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."

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Language: EN

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Production Information

Production Companies
BFI Kennedy Miller Productions
Production Countries
Australia United Kingdom
Spoken Languages
English

Keywords

australia movie business filmmaking

Quick Facts

Release Date November 23, 1996
Status Released
Language EN
IMDb ID tt0115441

Cast

George Miller
George Miller

Self - Host / Narrator

Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell

Self - Mythologist (archive footage)

Key Crew

George Miller
Director
Colin MacCabe
Executive Producer
Bob Last
Executive Producer
George Miller
Writer
George Miller
Producer
Doug Mitchell
Producer