Signatures of the Soul

Signatures of the Soul (1984)

October 4th, 19841h 0min

Documentary
0%

Overview

Tattooing — "the world's oldest skin game" — is the subject of this iconic documentary. Writer/director Geoff Steven scored a major coup by signing Easy Rider legend Peter Fonda as his presenter. Travelling to Aotearoa, Samoa, Japan and the United States, the doco traces key developments in tattooing, including its importance in the Pacific, prison-inspired styles, and the influence of 1960s counterculture. Legendary tattooists feature (including Americans Ed Hardy and Jack Rudy), while the closing credits parade some eye-opening full body tattoos.


Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!

Trailer

Similar Movies

Bloed

Bloed


Released on: 2011-06-03
Documentary

Elles Kiers and Sjef Meijman lived intensively with four Bunte Bentheimer pigs for seven months. Dur...

Posledná večera

Posledná večera


Released on: 2023-01-01
Documentary

Hollywood Normandie, histoire d'un débarquement

Hollywood Normandie, histoire d'un débarquement


Released on: 2022-06-06
Documentary, War, History, TV Movie

L'art fait du bien 2

L'art fait du bien 2


Released on: 2016-08-29
Documentary

Deborah Stratman to Nancy Holt: For the Time Being

Deborah Stratman to Nancy Holt: For the Time Being


Released on: 2021-10-08
Documentary

A video letter to Nancy Holt, made in homage to a shared interest in terminal lakes, framed views, m...

Circle of Light

Circle of Light


Released on: 1972-06-01
Documentary

This film without words is composed of Pamela Bone's unique photograhic transparencies. Her talent h...

THE MACHINE

THE MACHINE


Released on: 2024-06-02
Documentary, Science Fiction, Music, War, Comedy, Action, Western, Family

Takeda

Takeda


Released on: 2017-10-21
Documentary

Takeda is a film about the universality of the human being seen thru the eyes of a Japanese painter ...

SHRED

SHRED


Released on: 2024-09-20
Documentary

A group of queer Latinx skaters struggle with crippling mental health and societal expectations in S...

A Mensch is a Mensch

A Mensch is a Mensch


Released on:
Documentary

At 90 years old, Larry shows us that life does not need to stop, but rather can flourish at any age....

Re-enactment

Re-enactment


Released on: 2000-08-08
Documentary

For this work Alÿs purchased a gun in Mexico City then walked through the city streets with the weap...

Björn Gidstam - En känd doldis

Björn Gidstam - En känd doldis


Released on: 2020-05-24
Documentary

Koenigs Kugel - Der Bildhauer und der 11. September

Koenigs Kugel - Der Bildhauer und der 11. September


Released on: 2002-01-01
Documentary

Adlon recounts the making of the sculpture, "Kugelkaryatide" the sphere that stood in the center of ...

Hokusai Up Close: Paintings from the Freer Gallery of Art

Hokusai Up Close: Paintings from the Freer Gallery of Art


Released on: 2023-05-28
Documentary

In 2018 Japan’s NHK television network was given unprecedented access to the Freer Gallery of Art’s ...

Boiled Angels: The Trial of Mike Diana

Boiled Angels: The Trial of Mike Diana


Released on: 2018-03-31
Documentary

Florida, 1994. Artist Mike Diana is convicted on an obscenity charge in the wake of an undercover po...

Your Day Is My Night

Your Day Is My Night


Released on: 2014-05-10
Documentary, History

Immigrant residents of a “shift-bed” apartment in the heart of New York City’s Chinatown share their...

Live this Loudly: Afatasi

Live this Loudly: Afatasi


Released on:
Documentary

Afatasi The Artist is a San Francisco based mixed-media conceptual artist and futurist. Her artwork—...

Utopia Ltd.

Utopia Ltd.


Released on: 2011-05-12
Documentary

Anton Spielmann (18) and his two younger friends Basti Muxfeldt and Jonas Hinnerkort are living in t...

The Macondian Hollywood

The Macondian Hollywood


Released on: 2023-10-27
Documentary, History

Functions without theaters, murals without walls, clothes without fabrics and students without schoo...

The Paper Man

The Paper Man


Released on: 2021-04-11
Documentary

Much like Fred Rogers and Bob Ross in the United States, Claude Lafortune was a staple of French-Can...