40,000 Years of Dreaming

40,000 Years of Dreaming

The British Film Institute Presents The Century of Cinema: Australia and New Zealand
19971h 7minDocumentary MoviesEnglish
6.2

Plot

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."

WriterN/A
DirectorGeorge Miller
ActorGeorge Miller, Joseph Campbell
CountryAustralia
ProductionBFI