Basic Info
Release: April 24, 1949
Runtime: 12 min
Rating: ⭐ 5.5/10 (31 votes)
Status: Released
Videos
Meditation on Violence - Maya Deren (YouTube)
Meditation on Violence
1949
12 min
⭐ 5.5/10
31 votes
Overview
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.
Genres
Documentary
Production Countries
- United States of America
Spoken Languages
- No Language xx
Cast
Chao-Li Chi
Himself
Crew
Maya Deren
Director
Teiji Ito
Music
Chao-Li Chi
Writer
Maya Deren
Writer
Maya Deren
Cinematography
Backdrops
Posters
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