Summaries

A kaleidoscope of eight meaningful character-driven documentaries exploring the intimate process of cover-up tattoos.

Featuring a touching panoply of protagonists, tattooed by legends in the world of tattooing like Lal Hardy or fresh tattooing apprentices, the series fascinates the audience by being highly diverse. This visceral haiku focuses on the intimate process of cover-up tattoos explores, in fact, much wider themes, as the genealogy of the self through evolving identities, redefining permanence vs. instance and constant changing perspectives in one's life. What happens when you want to forget something that was inked - a name, a face, a symbol? Can be the process of cover-up expanded to a whole set of mechanisms we all possess when making choices or selecting meaningful memories? As one of the characters declares, "the human body is a living canvas", a diary.—Scapes

Details

Keywords
  • cover up tattoos
Genres
  • Biography
Release date Aug 31, 2014
Countries of origin United Kingdom
Language English
Production companies Medialab

Box office

Tech specs

Runtime 24m
Color Color
Aspect ratio 16:9 HD

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