40,000 Years of Dreaming

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.[1]

40,000 Years of Dreaming
Directed byGeorge Miller
Produced byBob Last
Colin MacCabe
Written byGeorge Miller
StarringGeorge Miller
Music byCarl Vine
CinematographyDion Beebe
Edited byMargaret Sixel
Release date
  • 10 November 1997 (1997-11-10)
Running time
67 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
Australia
LanguageEnglish

The film is mainly a collage of various pieces of Australian film, past and present, including Miller's own Mad Max series.[2] Miller focuses primarily on Australian cinema as a vessel of public dreaming, creating a link between contemporary Australian cinema and the "dreamtime" stories of Aboriginal folklore.[3] Miller also places Australian cinema in the context of Joseph Campbell's monomyth concept.

Since its release in 1997, along with several of the other films in the Century of Cinema series, outside of Martin Scorsese's feature, it has long been out of print, minus the occasional television showing.

References
  1. "White Fellas Dreaming: A Century of Australian Cinema". Australian Cinema.
  2. "40,000 Years of Dreaming: A Century of Australian Cinema". aso.gov.au. Retrieved 5 December 2019.
  3. "40,000 Years of Dreaming: A Century of Australilan Cinema". variety.com. Retrieved 5 December 2019.



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