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The Korean Wedding Chest (2009)
Directed by Ulrike Ottinger
Documentary · 1h 22m
Ulrike Ottinger’s provocative mélange of ethnography, stunning tableaux and baroque vignettes was inspired by what she calls the “well-stocked miracle” of Korean wedding chests, assembled according to time-honored customs. This exploration of love and marriage in South Korea looks closely at ancient and present-day rituals, revealing what is old in the new and new in the old. Her inquiry leads us from shamans, temples and priests, to the enchanted maze of 21st-century Seoul, where vendors of medicinal herbs co-exist with high-tech beauty salons for wedding couples and secular marriage palaces. Using film much like a canvas, Ottinger creates a modern fairytale flush with mythological heroes, traditional rites, ancestral symbolism, dreams of eternal love, and a whole lot of Western kitsch. One of her most acclaimed documentaries, it captures the amazing phenomenon of new mega-cities and their contradictory societies caught in a balancing act.
Cast
Ulrike Ottinger
Crew
- Director
- Ulrike Ottinger
- Writer
- Ulrike Ottinger
- Director of Photography
- Ulrike Ottinger, Lee Sunyoung
- Editor
- Yang Jin-mo, Bettina Blickwede
- Producer
- Ulrike Ottinger
Details
- Original title
- Die koreanische Hochzeitstruhe
- Release date
- 2009-10-01
- Runtime
- 1h 22m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- German, Korean
- Countries
- Germany