The
Sound of Milk is a sci-fi feature film with a little action,
a lot of sex, and lots of sound. It is a culmination of Philip Brophy's
interests in bodies, sound and Japanse animation, transformed into a
narrative that fuses these interests into a suitaably mutant post-human
end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it story.
This project was initally written by Philip Brophy throughout 1997,
and then received development assistance from an Australian Film Commission
Distinctly Australian Fellowship in 1998 (for research in Japan) and
Film Victoria in 2001 (toward script development with script editor
Monica Zetlin and reader contributions by Kim Gyngell & Alice Garner).
Additional script editing was done by Rosemary Shimauchi (reader for
GaGa, Japan) in 2003. From this a 6th and final draft was comnpleted.
Producer Julie Marlow came on board in 2003 and engaged Tetsuro Shimauchi
to write a Japanese translation of the final draft script.
A DVD short - The Sound of Milk
(Prologue) - has been produced with the assistance of the
Australian Film Commission's Strand-X fund in 2004.
Summary
The year 3073. No Northern Hemisphere. South East Asia is now one land
mass, including Australia. No Caucasian genes exist. Men and women have
become separate species. Women can self pro-create. Men have redesigned
themselves as cyborg machines.
Gender war rages. Women maintain low frequency oscillations which keep
male cyborgs at bay. Having not produced sperm for over a millennium,
men use new skeletal cyborgs to enter the women’s terrain in an
attempt to discover the secret of organic life.
But a time bomb is clicking. Men’s use of toxins and women’s
use of low frequencies are unsettling the earth’s tectonic plates.
Safe ground is being sought by both sides as planetary destruction looms.
Amidst this chaotic race against time and space, one woman dreams of
an end to the war. One woman breaks the taboo and falls in love with
a transsexual skeletal cyborg. But that cyborg is not what she appears
to be. Her creator might be the ultimate nemesis to all women.
