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40,000 Years of Dreaming
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40,000 Years of Dreaming

Nov 23, 1996
1h 7m
★ 6.2

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

Overview

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."

Genres

Documentary
TV Movie

Production Companies

BFI
Kennedy Miller Productions

Cast

George Miller

Self - Host / Narrator

George Miller

Joseph Campbell

Self - Mythologist (archive footage)

Joseph Campbell

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