40,000 Years of Dreaming
1996, English. Directed by George Miller.
The British Film Institute Presents The Century of Cinema: Australia and New Zealand
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."
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- 1h 7m
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- English
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- 23 November 1996
- Country
- Australia, United Kingdom
- Written by
- George Miller
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40,000 Years of Dreaming (1996) was directed by George Miller and stars George Miller, Joseph Campbell.