40,000 Years of Dreaming

(1996)

★ 6.4 IMDb · 8 votes

Genres: Documentary, телевизионный фильм

Year: 1996

Runtime: 67 мин

Country: Australia, United Kingdom

Director: Джордж Миллер

Cast: Джордж Миллер, Joseph Campbell

Plot

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."