40,000 Years of Dreaming

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

• Rated 6.4 out of 10
• Movie
• 1996
• 1h 7m
• Documentary
• TV Movie

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

Starring

George Miller, Joseph Campbell