1997
- Documentary
- TV Movie
40,000 Years of Dreaming
The british film institute presents the century of cinema: australia and new zealand
Runtime
1h 7m
Countries
- AU
- Australia
- GB
- United Kingdom
Languages
- en
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."
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StatusReleased
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Release dateNov. 10, 1997
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Original LanguageEnglish
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Production Companies
- British Film Institute