Meditation on Violence

MOVIE #1,844 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 07.24.24 Pαɾƚ σϝ ƚԋҽ MAYA DEREN ԃιɾҽƈƚσɾ ϝσƈυʂ ʂҽɾιҽʂ It used to be so you could do whatever you wanted: this is to be believed as a way of offsetting the crippling anxiety caused by The Struggle of today. Before Chao-Li Chi became a 1980s soap opera chauffeur, he danced the Wu-Tang Ritual for Maya Deren. Do you see what I mean? We can’t even get lost in these movements let alone write about them intelligently. Even if that’s what we wanted to do. Every dance is just practice for some future fight. Does it obscure the distinction between violence and beauty, or enhance it? This is one of the benefits of the passing of time.

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Meditation on Violence is a 1948 American experimental short film directed by Maya Deren. Shot in 16 mm, It explores in playing out the movements and performance of the Wu-tang ritual. It also obscures the distinction between violence and beauty. The film stars Chao-Li Chi and music by Teiji Ito. It was released on November 19, 1948.