Meditation on Violence
1949 · 12 min · Documentary
Chao-Li Chi shadow boxes indoors and practices with a sword outdoors. Theoretically, the film describes in a single continuous movement three degrees of traditional Chinese boxing, Wu-tang, Shao-lin, and Shao-lin with a sword. A long sequence of the ballet-like, sinuous Wu-tang becomes the more erratic Shao-lin; in the middle, there is an abrupt change to leaping sword movements, in the center of which, at the apogee of the leap, there is a long held freeze-frame.
- Director
- Maya Deren
- Writers
- Chao Li Chi, Maya Deren
- Released
- April 24, 1949
- Language
- English
Cast
Where to watch in the US
Free
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