40,000 Years of Dreaming
The British Film Institute Presents The Century of Cinema: Australia and New Zealand
1996-11-23
Australia, United Kingdom
67 minutes.
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."
Year 1996
Studio BFI, Kennedy Miller Productions
Director George Miller
Crew George Miller (Director), Colin MacCabe (Executive Producer), Bob Last (Executive Producer), Margaret Sixel (Editor), Doug Mitchell (Producer), George Miller (Producer)
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Language English
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