Meditation on Violence 1 part

Maya Deren
In Meditation on Violence (1948) Deren's camera is motivated by the movement of the performer, Chao Li Chi. This film is marked by a lack of dynamism and mobility that we have come to expect from Deren's camera. It also obscures the distinction between violence and beauty. The shadows on the white wall behind Chi amplify the movement of the Wu Tang ritual. In Meditation on Violence Deren experiments with film time, reversing the film part way through producing a loop. Exhibited forwards and then backwards, the difference in the Wu Tang movements is almost imperceptible.

the film & text are from:
http://www.ubu.com/film/deren.html

Category:

Film & Animation

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• Meditation
• on
• Violence
• Maya
• Deren
• Music:
• Teiji
• Ito.
• performer
• Chao
• Li
• Chi.
• Wu
• Tang
• ritual

[simozonelayer]

As far as i can make out he starts with a form of tai chi then he goes into the first form of Hung Keun (standing tall thrusting his arms about and sinking to low horse stances) then I think the he performs the Lau Gar Keun form as well but i'm probably wrong.

[mutantres]

el hecho de dar acceso a este tipo de material es, entre otras cosas, lo que hace a youtube un sitio tan importante en esta era

[DerrickthePinecone]

@alexanderchaparro No.

[iampeeay01]

nice video... thanks for sharing... is he performing tai-chi?

[alexanderchaparro]

Wu-Tang Forever

[ratedrsuperstar6666]

I cant fight, I tried so hard to make myself strong and be confident during fight and before but the fukin FEAR finally overlaps me and I freeze up loosing the fight, I'm depressed over this issue.

[PtAltmVansanTarr]

Is that a young Obama?

[dahms54]

I'd guess this is the original traditional Yang style as created by Yang Luchan after learning the Chen style from the Chen city and subsequently taken over by his son Yang Banhou. It contains all the basic moves that is in the traditional long form taught by Yang Cheng Fu - the form most of us know and practice as the traditional Yang long form.

[GreatBigSlide]

Wu-Tang Wu-tang!

[nephildevil]

all meditation, no violence pfffff

[belisariusorb]

@mutantres tienes razón - es precisamente por eso que estoy disfrutando tanto de youtube estos dias - cierta nostalgia por una tele de cultura profunda y un acceso a las mejores obras en video hace de yt imprescindible.

[SmokyNebula]

たしかにバイオレンスだ！