40,000 Years of Dreaming

1996

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

George Miller
1h 7m
November 23, 1996 · Australia, United Kingdom

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."

Details

Status: Released
Release date: November 23, 1996
Original language: English
Spoken languages: English
Countries: Australia, United Kingdom
Production: Kennedy Miller Productions,BFI
Cast: George Miller,Joseph Campbell
Director: George Miller
Writer: George Miller
Producer: Bob Last,Colin MacCabe,Doug Mitchell,George Miller
Cinematography: Dion Beebe
Music: Carl Vine
Budget: Not recorded
Revenue: Not recorded
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