Who directed Meditation on Violence?

Meditation on Violence was directed by Maya Deren.

How long is Meditation on Violence?

Meditation on Violence runs for 12min, and was released in 1949.

Meditation on Violence

Name: Meditation on Violence
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1949
Duration: 12 min
Cast: Chao Li Chi

1949

12min

Documentary

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Overview

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.