The life story of Milford Beeghly: Iowa farmer, early developer of hybrid seed corn, husband, father, grandfather.

Hybrid

”Milk in The Land” weaves together a quirky, alternative history of America’s most committed culinary choice. Food and culture are bound in mysterious ways. Milk is often assumed to be the perfect food, consumed since the beginning of time, delivered to us all as a pure gift of nature. This film amplifies and re-centres the whispered and marginalised, yet still deeply revealing ideas surrounding this iconic American product.

Milk in the Land: Ballad of an American Drink

In the spirit of the Surrealist parlor game of chance Exquisite Corpse, each filmmaker makes a documentary short film based on imagery forwarded on by the previous filmmaker in the chain. The composite story forms a global independent filmmaking experience.