Meditation on Violence poster

Meditation on Violence

5.8(36)194912m1

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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  • dance
  • short film

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Director

Maya Deren

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United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • Theatrical (limited)Michigan State College24 Apr 1949
    • Theatrical27 Nov 1949

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Meditation on Violence was released on 24 April 1949.

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