Meditation on Violence [104849] Released: 1949-04-24 Revenue: $0 Budget: $0 Profit: $0 Runtime: 12 mins Popularity: 0.1823 Vote Average: 5.5 Vote Count: 31 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. Cast [1] Chao-Li ChiHimself Trailers Meditation on Violence - Maya Deren