40,000 Years of Dreaming

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."

Country:

Australia,

United Kingdom

Genre:

Documentary,

TV Movie

Duration:

67 minutes

Year:

1997

Director:

George Miller

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Company:

BFI,

Kennedy Miller Productions

Cast:

Self - Host / Narrator

Self - Mythologist (archive footage)

Crew:

Director

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Writer

Producer