(Meditation on Violence)

Content: 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.

Countries:

United States of America

Genres:

Documentary

Runtime:

12 minutes

Year:

1949

Directors:

Maya Deren

Actors:

Himself

Crews:

Director

Music

Writer

Writer

Cinematography