Reduction

16mm, black and white, sound, 11 min
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"Using alternating images of animals and army inductees at a draft center, this film makes a strong comment about mechanization, authority, conformity and slaughter of all kinds. Parallels are drawn ...
Rental format: 16mm

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"Using alternating images of animals and army inductees at a draft center, this film makes a strong comment about mechanization, authority, conformity and slaughter of all kinds. Parallels are drawn bvetween the docile herd of sheep and the herd of draft eligibke young men; between the indignity of shearing sheep and stripping men; between the slaughtering of animals and the killing of men in war. The assemblky line format used to turn anoimals into food and young men into soldiers provides a bitter comment on the inhumanity of war and the standarization of human beings."

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