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40,000 Years of Dreaming

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

1996-11-23
6.2
en 67m
DocumentaryTV 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."

Director

George Miller

Executive Producer

Colin MacCabe

Executive Producer

Bob Last

Writer

George Miller

Producer

George Miller

Producer

Doug Mitchell

australia movie business filmmaking

Status

Released

Countries

  • Australia
  • United Kingdom

Companies

  • BFI
  • Kennedy Miller Productions

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