Film

40,000 Years of Dreaming

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

6.2

1h 7m

1996

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

Synopsis

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."

Director

George Miller

DocumentaryTV Movie

australiamovie businessfilmmaking

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Cast & Crew

George Miller

as Self - Host / Narrator

Joseph Campbell

as Self - Mythologist (archive footage)

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