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Movie-revised from Jungwon Choi on Vimeo.

Smell and Sexuality

Korea has numerous foods with distinctive smell








in similar ways:





Motifs

Here are some several motifs for my video clips:
1.Flies













when making this nasty food Hong-uh, flies keeps sitting on the fish. From this motif, I used the image of a fly to portray a food being a fetish, for how the fetish in the religious context would be. The picture shown below would illustrate well how people cherish one object.

so if we substitute fly with human like this:








it would be easier to understand my intention.




















2. Making tools to satisfy one's sexual appetite or preference:
from the film that we saw in the class-Conspirators of Pleasure(by Ian Svankmajer), people make their own tools to get sexual satisfaction from their fetish.
Likewise in my film, the girl creates her own tool to smell the Hong-uh in extreme. Also, the tools resembles the shape of a fly.

3.Webcams: it arouses the feeling of voyeurism

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? from Jungwon Choi on Vimeo.

The video

Here's the video
http://www.vimeo.com/11396773

Short essay on Korean Fetish- Rough Sketches

Hong-uh, has terrible smell to be loved by people. But, it is loved by a considerable number of people.

A girl who used to hate the smell of Hong-uh, starts to have some attraction on it. It resemble the scene of a fly sitting on rotten meats. She seems to have certain excitement when she smells the sharping smell of Hong-uh. Within its sparking textures, she feel a sexual satisfaction more than the euphoria of tasting and smelling certain foods.

Korean Fetish

Smell has special ability to arouse emotions; for example, we attain some kind of smell as a part of a memory, and that smell activates reminding some kind of images. Technology hasn't developed to the level of making or modifying smells, yet recently quite a few cinemas started 4D multiplexes. Smells combinated with visualls would enhance the effect of entertainment, and I believe that there is much to be exploited in this kind of area.

된장(Dwen-jang), 홍어(Hong-uh), 김치(Kimchi), 젓갈(Jut-gal)....What do they have in common? They are all fermented foods, which has nasy smells. Especially, Koreans have many cuisines that has stinking smells. Why do they like it?

Note that smell is also used to sexually attract people. For example, men in 18th century of England put a handkerchief in their armpit, danced for an hour to sweat, and put out the handkerchief to let their body odor to emit out. All smell that has to be related to seuxual meanings have in common that it is a smell from protiens. This might explain the reason why people in the world as well as Koreans love such fermented foods; in fact, most of the smell of it is the result of decayed proteins.