40,000 Years of Dreaming (1996)

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

• Documentary
• TV Movie

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."

Rating

6.4 / 10 (8 votes)

Release date

November 23, 1996

Runtime

1h 07m

Language

English

Director

George Miller

Status

Released