Release Date

23 Nov, 1996

Runtime

01:07: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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

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."

Original Title

40,000 Years of Dreaming

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Actors

George Miller

Joseph Campbell

Crew

George Miller

Bob Last

Colin MacCabe

Carl Vine

Doug Mitchell

Margaret Sixel

George Miller

George Miller

Dion Beebe