Career
They performed in a wide range of Australian venues including pubs, galleries, university campuses and the Clifton Hill Community Centre. His first feature film, Body Melt, was released in 1993, and was funded by the Australian Commission and Victoria. Brophy has had works published in journals such as Virgin Press, Art & Text and Fast Forward and has presented papers at various film conferences since the early 1980s.
He began teaching sound and media at the Phillip Institute of Technology in 1982.
He began teaching cinema studies at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 1986. Between 1985 and 2002 he co-presented, with Bruce Milne, the irreverent cultural theory and music radio show Eeek!, on Melbourne radio station 3RRR (1027 MHz).
At the time it was the most popular show on the station. Brophy has regularly written for The Wire magazine about film soundtracks, also Comment.
He was the director of the Cinesonic International Conference on Scores & Sound Design, and has edited three journals from the conference.
He has had two books published by the British Institute, including 100 Anime, exploring Japanese animation. Philip Brophy has also exhibited his artworks in Art Galleries for exhibitions such as "Vox".