40,000 Years of Dreaming (1996)
Synopsis
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."
Release Date: 1996-11-23
Runtime: 67 minutes
Director: George Miller
Top Cast
- George Miller as Self - Host / Narrator
- Joseph Campbell as Self - Mythologist (archive footage)
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