Meditation on Violence
Film duration:
12
Year:
1945
Distribution status:
Legacy
Other distributors:
Anthology Film Archives, The Film-makers' Cooperative
Countries:
United States of America
Original format:
16mm
Sound:
Silent
Colour:
Black and white
In ‘Meditation on Violence’ Maya Deren sought to represent the philosophical attitudes behind several closely-related forms of martial art. The film consists entirely of sequences of a Chinese boxer demonstrating the movements of Wu-Tang and two forms of Shao-Lin.
Description source: Circles catalogue (1987). Edited by Jenny Holland and Jane Harris.
This film is not available to book through Cinenova. It is now distributed by Anthology Film Archives (USA) and The Film-makers' Cooperative (USA)
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