The Mallet

The Mallet

1977 · 11 min · ★ 7.7 · Documentary

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 drop 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.

Directed by Aleksandar Ilić · Written by Aleksandar Ilić

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