40,000 Years of Dreaming

40,000 Years of Dreaming

67 mins | Documentary, TV Movie | Nov. 10, 1997

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."

40,000 Years of Dreaming

67 mins | Documentary, TV Movie | Nov. 10, 1997

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."
IMDb rating 6.8
Producers Kennedy Miller Productions, British Film Institute
Original title 40,000 Years of Dreaming
Directors George Miller
Writers George Miller

Cast

George Miller

as Himself

Joseph Campbell

as Himself (archive footage)