Released
Meditation on Violence
April 24 1949 (over 75 years ago)Rating
56
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30 reviews
- Director: Maya Deren
- Genre: Documentary
- Runtime: 12 m
- Country: United States of America
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.
