CINEMA

40,000 Years of Dreaming

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

199667m6.4 (8)
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."

Crew

George Miller

George Miller

Director

Doug Mitchell

Doug Mitchell

Producer

George Miller

George Miller

Producer

Dion Beebe

Dion Beebe

Director of Photography

George Miller

George Miller

Writer

CV

Carl Vine

Original Music Composer

Cast

George Miller

George Miller

Self - Host / Narrator

Joseph Campbell

Joseph Campbell

Self - Mythologist (archive footage)

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