CinemaOSMovie · 1996 · 1h 7m

40,000 Years of Dreaming

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

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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."

Directed byGeorge Miller

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 7m
Language
EN
Released
November 23, 1996
Studios
BFIKennedy Miller Productions

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Cast & crew

2 credited
Starring
George Miller

George Miller

Self - Host / Narrator

Joseph Campbell

Joseph Campbell

Self - Mythologist (archive footage)

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Directed by
George Miller
George Miller
Written by
George Miller
George Miller
Produced by
Doug Mitchell
Doug Mitchell
George Miller
George Miller

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