Meditation on Violence

1949 12m ★5.8

Documentary

Meditation on Violence

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.

Release Date April 24, 1949

Runtime 12m

Country United States of America

Language English

Director Maya Deren

Category Documentary

Rating 5.8 / 10 (TMDb)

Year 1949

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Chao Li Chi Himself

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