40,000 Years of Dreaming

40,000 Years of Dreaming (1996)

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

TMDb

6.2

23/11/1996 • 1h 7m
original-title

40,000 Years of Dreaming

status

Released

production-companies

BFI

Kennedy Miller Productions

original-language

English

budget

-

revenue

-

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."

production-countries

Australia

United Kingdom

spoken-languages

English

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