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Meditation on Violence
1949 | 12m | English
Popularity: 0.1 (history)
| Director: | Maya Deren |
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| Writer: | Maya Deren, Chao-Li Chi |
| Staring: |
| 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: | Apr 24, 1949 |
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| Director: | Maya Deren |
| Writer: | Maya Deren, Chao-Li Chi |
| Genres: | Documentary |
| Keywords | dance, short film |
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Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Jan 29, 2026 Entered: May 07, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
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| Chao-Li Chi | Himself |
| Name | Job |
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| Maya Deren | Writer, Director, Cinematography |
| Chao-Li Chi | Writer |
| Teiji Ito | Music |
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