Meditation on Violence

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.