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40,000 Years of Dreaming

40,000 Years of Dreaming

1996

6.2

(5)

Duration

1h 7m

Premiere

November 23, 1996

Budget

$0

Gross worldwide

$0

Genres

Documentary, TV Movie

Description

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

BFI

BFI

Kennedy Miller Productions

Kennedy Miller Productions