In a futuristic antiseptic food factory, workers select healthy chicks while the rejects are carried along a conveyor belt until they are crushed by a mallet and dropped into a garbage bin. A single black chick appears among the yellow and is shoved toward the garbage bin. Before the mallet strikes the gasping chick rebels. A terrifying vision of Social Darwinism, rendered as a haunting and powerful allegory. Without narration. Winner of the 1979 Melbourne Film Festival short film competition. NB: CONTAINS DISTURBING IMAGES
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ACMI Identifier
506210
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Film festivals - Australia - Melbourne - Awards
Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Natural selection
Family, Gender Identity, Relationships & Sexuality → Conformity
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)