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."
- Year : 1997
- Country : Australia, United Kingdom
- Genre : Documentary, TV Movie
- Studio : BFI, Kennedy Miller Productions
- Keyword : australia, movie business, filmmaking
- Director : George Miller
- Cast : George Miller, Joseph Campbell
