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Meditation on Violence

United States • English • 1949 • 12m

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Synopsis

This short study in movement features actor and dancer Chao-Li Chi in an ecstatic demonstration of martial-arts ritual.

Included in
Maya Deren: Master of the Avant-Garde
Position 6

Credits

Crew

DirectorMaya Deren

WriterChao-Li Chi, Maya Deren

ComposerTeiji Ito

Cast

Chao-Li Chias Himself

Meditation on Violence (1949) | Criteria