- Three Times Chi
- The Primal Energy of China/
Dreimal Chi - Die Urenergie Chinas
- A video document by
- Wolf Kahlen
- German, 1990-96, 48 minutes
- Primal Energy, Life Essence, Stream of Air, River of Energy
- (through the chacras for exa,mple) however you may translate the .
- vital power Chi, all these fumbling 'only partly describing ,
- words are not more then 'empty terms" in Chinese medicine for
- empirical experiences. These centuries old, repeatedly approved
- and refined observations have brought about differentiated forms
- of practice. And are based on philosophies equally old.
- Their methods are Tai Chi Chuan and Qi Gong (Chi Kung)
- and otherways of the use of this vital energy. The practices helps body
- and mind, prevention and healing of illnesses, may lead to a
- conscious life, or teach Martial Arts, give relieve of
- psychological or physiological-blockads.
- They stimulate or calm down the flow of the Chi.
- The 'media sculptor' Wolf Kahlen documenting these practices
- observes, as he says, 'mouth open rather than trying in vain to
- depict objectively', works with an empathically, 'thinking
- camera, one 'close to his heart'. The camera is an addition' to
- the other senses, 'a third eye'.
- He does not give any sort of explanations, but some participants
- do. There is no evaluatiohn nor any classification.
- Only the 'actors' in the document know better.
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- Part 1 shows patients and women healers in a park of Beijing in
- Winter 1990. They 'charge their batteries' in front of old trees, @
- collapse and act in a state of catharsis,
- like the method of the Primal Cry of Janov.
- This century old chinese version of a similar method
- is documented here for the first time to western people.
- Part 2 presents the training of Ch'i Ming, a Qi Gong master, he
- practices every sunday morning. It combines Martial Arts
- techniques with healing processes. The estounding ability of the
- transfer of the master's energy onto the student, even when he
- does not touch the master at all, and the resulting enormous
- push back of the 'aggressor', when he 'enters the master's
- field', are seldom to observe.
- A western former Shaoling student comments.
- Part 3 finally watches the common Tai Ci Chuan practices on an
- early hazy sommer morning at Hangzhous West Lake shore.
