40,000 Years of Dreaming

40,000 Years of Dreaming (1997)

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

  • Genre: Documentary, TV Movie
  • Release Date: 1997-11-10
  • User Rating: 6.2/10 from 5 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 7min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: BFI
  • Production Country: Australia, United Kingdom
  • Director: George Miller
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Summary

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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  • George Miller

    as Self - Host / Narrator
  • Joseph Campbell

    as Self - Mythologist (archive footage)
Directing George Miller Director
Production Colin MacCabe Executive Producer
Production Bob Last Executive Producer
Editing Margaret Sixel Editor
Production Doug Mitchell Producer
Production George Miller Producer
Camera Dion Beebe Director of Photography
Writing George Miller Writer
Sound Carl Vine Original Music Composer