40,000 Years of Dreaming
- Movies
- 1996-11-23
- EN
- Released
- 1h 7m
- GB
- Documentary - TV Movie
Production
BFI, Kennedy Miller Productions
Tagline
The British Film Institute Presents The Century of Cinema: Australia and New Zealand
Storyline
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."
