40,000 Years of Dreaming

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

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Documentary

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."

Keywords

australia
movie business
filmmaking
australian cinema

Details

Status: Released
Release date: November 23, 1996
Original language: English
Spoken languages: english
Countries: Australia, United Kingdom
Production: Kennedy Miller Productions,BFI,BFI, Kennedy Miller Productions
Budget: Not recorded
Revenue: Not recorded
IMDb: tt0115441