THE KOREAN WEDDING CHEST (Ulrike Ottinger, 2009, 21.-27.10.)

In South Korea the wedding chest, a massive wooden box filled with things both mysterious and symbolic, is part of the opening ritual of every marriage ceremony. In Ulrike Ottinger's film, it also serves as the starting point for the journey the director takes into present-day Seoul, where she combs the megacity for what, in the end, are invisible traditions. In the process she discovers the old in the new – and vice versa – in Korea's omnipresent wedding industry.