40,000 Years of Dreaming

40,000 Years of Dreaming

"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."

Release Date

November 10, 1997

Status

Released

Original Title

40,000 Years of Dreaming

Runtime

1h 7min

Budget

Revenue

Language

English

Production Companies

BFIKennedy Miller Productions