Milk Report the Film

2025

Milk Report is a short film by artists and designers Conway & Young, produced as part of the Feed project.

Adapted from an original publication of the same name, it explores the politics and economics of care through the lens of feeding a baby, and the 720 hours Young spent doing so over a 6-month period. The 20 minute film focuses on the improvised, chaotic, interdependent and messy nature of reproductive labour.

Poster for Milk Report, with pink latex gloves in the background and white text with the works 'Milk Report: The mess, The pleasure, The labour'e

The film premiered at Woodend Gallery in Scarborough in March 2025, as part of Scarborough Film Festival. It has also been shown at Perspectives Gallery at Virginia Tech University and Duke Hall Gallery of Fine Art at James Madison University (US), as part of the M(other)ing exhibition, and at Chapter Arts in Cardiff.

Click here to read an article about the project by Susan Newman, Professor of Economics at the Open University and co-curator of the online exhibition This is Essential Work.

Film still from Milk Report the film, showing two women in a black room, wearing blown up pink latex gloves, which resemble udders and surrounded by cartons of cows milk.
Image of publication with pink cover and the words 'MILK REPORT 720 HOURS 7 MINUTES'
Film still from Milk Report the film, showing two women in a black room, wearing blown up pink latex gloves, which resemble udders and surrounded by cartons of cows milk.