40,000 Years of Dreaming
# 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."
🌏 Languages Available:
English
📆 Date Released:
1997-11-10
⌚ Running Time:
67 mins
⭐ Vote Average:
6.2
Beloved Cast
Self - Host / Narrator
George Miller
Self - Mythologist (archive footage)
Joseph Campbell
