40,000 Years of Dreaming
40,000 Years of Dreaming

40,000 Years of Dreaming

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1996
1h 7m
6.2(5 votes)
Documentary
TV Movie

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."

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2 members
Directing

George Miller

Self - Host / Narrator

George Miller
Acting

Joseph Campbell

Self - Mythologist (archive footage)

Joseph Campbell

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