Salt, Saliva, Sperm and Sweat
Strange experimental short film that follows four days of a writer.
Philip Brophy
Director
Also Directed by Philip Brophy
An experimental documentary on dancing and its part in subcultures from punk to electro.
Dark Seed is a psychological drama in development, tracing the interconnections between three women and the dark gendered undercurrents which shape their lives and personalities.
Residents of peaceful Pebbles Court, Homesville, are being used unknowingly as test experiments for a new 'Body Drug' that causes rapid body decomposition (melting skin etc.) and painful death.
The Sound of Milk is a sci fi gender war film in development. It doesn't end well.
A short Super 8 film by → ↑ → which is exactly what the title says. The focus of the film, though, is the audiovisual effects generated by placing an alternative soundtrack to the original images. The spoken fragments are snippets of commentary remembered from watching the broadcast, making the film a deconstruction not only of the original broadcast, but also of the experience of watching the broadcast. The droning layers of built-up synthesizer noise obliterate the expected musical spectacle. This film set the agenda for Philip Brophy's altered/reworked soundtracks in numerous films and videos since: from 1982's Ads through to the 2000-2015 cycle Evaporated Music.
Part Brechtian in its distancing of language, and part-Warholian in its funtime-exploitation of a circle of friends, I You We typifies the strong textual focus of many → ↑ → films and videos of the time.
Grey Metal is a psychological horror film. The story is centered on a young heavy metal fan who thinks he is possessed by a devil. Maybe he is. Or maybe it's something else ...
A 16mm film dual projection film by → ↑ → assembled and edited from 16mm reels of advertisements produced for Australian television in the early 70s. A cassette audio narration accompanies the dual projection.
