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The Korean Wedding Chest
(Die koreanische Hochzeitstruhe)

Director in Person
Screening on Film
$12 Special Event Tickets
Directed by Ulrike Ottinger.
With Kim KeumHwa, Boseong, Kim Minja.
Germany/South Korea, 2009, 35mm, color, 82 min.
English and Korean with English subtitles.

Ottinger’s fascinating documentary portrait of wedding customs in contemporary Seoul centers around the eponymous chest, its contents, and the important ceremonial role it continues to play in South Korean weddings. Ottinger’s visually striking film, which was commissioned by the Women’s Film Festival in Seoul, carefully locates the contemporary wedding industry at the very heart of the intersection of tradition and modernity in Korean culture.

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