Meditation on Violence
1949•12m•5.8•Released
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
Writer
Chao Li Chi, Maya Deren
Languages
No Language
Cast
Chao Li Chi
Himself
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