40,000 Years of Dreaming

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

Duration: 67 min
Release date: 1996-11-23
IMDB

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."

Documentary TV Movie

40,000 Years of Dreaming

Videos

40,000 Years of Dreaming

Watch Providers

OVID

Recomendation Films

  • Lion
  • B-Girl Rhapsody
  • Period. End of Sentence.
  • Return to Homs
  • Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
  • Smultronstället
  • Magnum Force
  • Çiçero
  • La notte
  • Вставай и бейся
  • La meglio gioventù
  • Jules et Jim
  • Playdate
  • The Return of Superfly
  • Return of the Ewok
  • Тайны дворцовых переворотов. Россия, век XVIII-ый. Фильм 5-й. Вторая невеста императора
  • Olsenbanden og Dynamitt-Harry går amok

Similar Films

  • Autoritratto Auschwitz. L'occhio è per così dire l'evoluzione biologica di una lagrima
  • Dangerous Lies: Unmasking Belle Gibson
  • Midnight Oil: The Hardest Line
  • The Name of This Film Is Dogme95
  • Behind the Skis
  • Con la pata quebrada
  • Richard Glazier: From Broadway to Hollywood
  • Leinwandfieber
  • Ballad of Exiles: Yılmaz Güney
  • Notfilm
  • Under Cover
  • Amours enfantines sous l'occupation
  • The Lovers and the Despot
  • Finke: There & Back
  • Smile
  • Hollywood's Musical Moods
  • Shine a Light
  • Made in New Mexico
  • The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
  • The Platypus Guardian

NextFilm 2025