40,000 Years of Dreaming (movie)
- User score: 6.2
- Production country: Australia, United Kingdom
- Producer: George Miller
- Production companies: BFI, Kennedy Miller Productions
- Genre: Documentary, TV Movie
- Release date: 11/10/1997
- Run time: 67 min.
Movie description
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."
