Meditation on Violence

Meditation on Violence — 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.

• Release date
• April 24, 1949
• Runtime
• 12 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Maya Deren

Meditation on Violence — Cast

Chao Li Chi Himself