40,000 Years of Dreaming

THE BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE PRESENTS THE CENTURY OF CINEMA: AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND

6.2/10 1996 4K 67 min

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."

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40,000 Years of Dreaming

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