40,000 Years of Dreaming
6.2|1997|1h 7m| EN
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
Director: George Miller
Votes: 5
Production Companies: 
BFI
Kennedy Miller Productions
