
About the film

dance short film
Meditation on Violence
Release Date: April 24, 1949
Year | : | 1949 |
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Genres | : | Documentary |
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Director | : | Maya Deren |
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Writers | : | Maya Deren, Chi Chaoli |
RunTime | : | 12 mins. |
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.
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Trailer: Meditation on Violence - Maya Deren
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