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40,000 Years of Dreaming(Movie, 1997)

1h 7min | Genres: Documentary, TV Movie

Rating: 3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

40,000 Years of Dreaming (White Fellas Dreaming: A Century of Australian Cinema) is an hour-long documentary film presented by George Miller and produced by the British Film Institute, as part of its Century of Cinema series. The film is mainly a collage of various pieces of Australian film, past and present, including Miller's own Mad Max series. Miller focuses primarily on Australian cinema as a vessel of public Dreaming, creating a link between contemporary Australian cinema and the Dreamtime lores from a variety of Aboriginal Australian groups. Miller also places Australian cinema in the context of Joseph Campbell's monomyth concept. It has been out of print since its release in 1997, along with several of the other films in the Century of Cinema series, apart from Martin Scorsese's feature. It has occasionally been aired on television. ()

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About 40,000 Years of Dreaming

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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White Fellas Dreaming - Introduction(Clip, 5:11)

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Additional Information

Production countries: Australia, United Kingdom (UK)

Made by: British Film Institute (BFI), Kennedy Miller Productions

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 1 language: English (EN)

Status: Released

Release date DE: 11/10/1997

Director: George Miller

Film Editor: Margaret Sixel

Director of Photography: Dion Beebe

Composer: Carl Vine

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"White Fellas Dreaming: A Century of Australian Cinema"

"40,000 Years of Dreaming: A Century of Australian Cinema"

Keywords: movie business, filmmaking, australia

16 movies in the Collection

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1995 2 x 50 Years of French Cinema ("Deux fois cinquante ans de cinéma français")

1995 A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies

1995 Cinema de Lágrimas

1995 Cinema of Unease: A Personal Journey by Sam Neill

1995 I Am Curious, Film ("Jag är nyfiken, film")

1995 Irish Cinema: Ourselves Alone?

1995 The Cinema on the Road ("한국영화 씻김")

1995 The Night of the Filmmakers ("Die Nacht der Regisseure")

1995 Typically British: A Personal History of British Cinema

1996 And the Show Goes On

1996 The Russian Idea ("Русская идея")

1997 40,000 Years of Dreaming

1997 Aristotle's Plot ("Le complot d'Aristote")

1998 Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema ("男生女相：華語電影之性別")

1999 100 Years of Polish Cinema ("100 Lat w Kinie")

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