40,000 Years of Dreaming (1997)

Overview : 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 : November 10, 1997

Runtime : 67m

Genre : Documentary, TV Movie  

Companies : BFI, Kennedy Miller Productions

Countries : Australia, United Kingdom

Keywords : australia, movie business, filmmaking