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    Meditation on Violence

    Meditation on Violence

    1949

    12:48

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    5.5/10 (31)

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    Meditation on Violence

    Genre

    Documentary

    Plot

    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

    Maya Deren, Chao-Li Chi,

    Stars

    Chao-Li Chi,