Funded
by the Australian Film Commission's Strand-X Fund, The
Sound of Milk (prologue) is developed from the
feature film project The
Sound of Milk, currently in development: 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 suitably mutant post-human end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it
story.
The
Sound of Milk 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 completed. Producer Julie
Marlow came on board in 2003 and engaged Tetsuro Shimauchi to write
a Japanese translation of the final draft script.
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. They live in domed communities
in the desert. Male sperm is now impotent, and Men have redesigned themselves
as cyborg machines. They live in darkened high-density coastal cities.
Heterosexuality is unthinkable. Gender war rages. Sensed through the
perspective of a warrior women living in this future, The
Sound of Milk (prologue) creates an evocative series
of futuristic landscapes and filmed portraits of racial and sexual types
and differences that may exist in the future of what once was called
Australia.
Cast
Font
Skeleton
Ra
Ro
Shon
Sexdroid
Tork
Boushinja
Khulshahl
Cassandra
Fai
Lo Man
Masayuki Hasuoka
Linda Lim
Derek Burns
Choy Hardisty
Sophie Poole
Frank Foo
Shailah Rudoph
Farah Haroon
Sunila Shrivastava
Crew
Writer
& director
Producer
Production manager
Casting manager
Location manager
Cinematographer
Camera operator
Key grip
Production designer
Art director
Props maker
Super Dimension Fridge
Costume designer
Costume assistant & wardrobe
Hair & make-up
Location cinematographers
Location camera assistant
Extra effects cinematographer
Editor
Edit log
Effects compositing
Storyboard
Continuity
Sound designer & composer
Voices
Dolby Digital 5.1 mix
Studio
Edit & sound post-production
Insurance
Philip
Brophy
Julie Marlow
Monica Zetlin
Tze Heen Kenneth Cheong
Corrina Dichiera
Michael Williams
Rocco Fasano
Freddo Dirk
Philip Brophy
Miriam Johnson
David Bell
Michael Trudgeon & Anthony Kitchener
Annette Soumilas
Sophie Poole
Leanne Hanley
Michael Williams (Pioneer Sand Quarry – Bacchus Marsh; Caltex
– Werribee; ACMI - Melbourne)
Philip Brophy (Odaibo – Japan; Mong Kok & Cheng Shah Wang
– Hong Kong; Melbourne city & docklands; RMIT Chemical/Metallurgic
Engineering)
Peter Murphy
Pancho Colladetti
Philip Brophy
Pancho Colladetti
Philip Brophy & Pancho Colladetti
Philip Brophy
Monica Zetlin
Philip Brophy
Philip Brophy
Philip Brophy
Premier Lighting
Gelatin
H.W. Wood
Special
thanks
Australian
Centre for the Moving Image, Hiromi Aihara, Karin Altmann (AFC),
Rod Bishop, Leon Bronson (Bronson Video Production Hire), Andrew
Chryss (RMIT Chemical/Metallurgic Engineering), Rosemary Dean, Fiona
Eagger, Bin Bun Furusawa, David Haberfeld, James Hewison, Kiyo Joo,
Bob Kammerman (Pioneer Sand Quarry), John Keogh, Anthony Kitchener,
Barry Lanfranchi, Frances Leadbeter (AFC), Keely Macarow, Dominic
Redfern, Susan Richmond, RMIT Media Arts, Anna & Maury Schwartz,
Tetsuro Shimauchi, Carole Sklan (AFC), Jennifer Sochacky, Helen
Stuckey (ACMI), Paul Sutton (ACMI), Michael Trudgeon, David Vodicka.
