40,000 Years of Dreaming

Synopsis

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."

Main Cast

George Miller

Self - Host / Narrator

Age : N/A | Popularity : 50%

Joseph Campbell

Self - Mythologist (archive footage)

Age : 83 | Popularity : 8%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	George Miller
Writing	Writer	George Miller
Sound	Original Music Composer	Carl Vine
Camera	Director of Photography	Dion Beebe
Production	Producer	Doug Mitchell George Miller
	Executive Producer	Colin MacCabe Bob Last
Editing	Editor	Margaret Sixel
Department	Role	Name

Join the discussion