Signatures of the Soul (1984)
• October 4th, 1984 • 1h 0min
Documentary
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
Moving Together
Released on: 2023-02-11
Documentary
Moving Together is a celebratory love letter to music and dance that brims with kinetic life and ene...
A.B.
Released on: 2023-10-08
Documentary, Comedy, Drama
A documentary-style capturing of the life of Ab, a young struggling artist trying to find her way, a...
Good Chemistry: The Story of Elemental
Released on: 2023-09-13
Documentary
Pixar director Peter Sohn takes viewers on a humorous personal journey through the inspiration behin...
Filmmakers for the Prosecution
Released on: 2023-01-27
Documentary, History, TV Movie
In 1945, two young American soldiers, brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg, are commissioned to collec...
Tehran Blues
Released on: 2020-11-26
Documentary, Music
Different faces show us an Iran where tradition and modernity coexist and confront each other. Erfan...
The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness
Released on: 2013-11-16
Documentary
Follows the behind-the-scenes work of Studio Ghibli, focusing on the notable figures Hayao Miyazaki,...
River's End: California's Latest Water War
Released on: 2021-01-14
Documentary
A documentary that reveals California's complex struggle over who gets fresh water, and how moneyed ...
The Race for Everest
Released on: 2003-05-27
Documentary
The dramatic story of the British expedition that made the first ascent of Everest. Combining inter...
I'm Too Sad to Tell You
Released on: 1971-03-17
Documentary
This short film is part of a mixed media artwork of the same name, which also included postcards of ...
The Paradox of Norval Morrisseau
Released on: 1974-01-01
Documentary
In this revealing study of Norval Morrisseau, filmed as he works among the lakes and woodlands of hi...
A Cursed Man
Released on: 2024-12-08
Horror, Documentary
Filmmaker Liam Le Guillou seeks out an occult curse to an answer to the question "is magic real?", f...
Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition
Released on: 2023-04-18
Documentary
With loans from across the world, this major retrospective will bring together Vermeer’s most famous...
Cut Piece
Released on: 1965-01-01
Documentary
Filmed at New York’s Carnegie Hall, Cut Piece documents one of Yoko Ono’s most powerful conceptual p...
The Boys Wanted to See Fireworks from the Side
Released on: 1999-08-07
Documentary
A documentary looking back on the making of Shunji Iwai's TV play Fireworks, Should We See it from t...
The So-Called Caryatids
Released on: 1984-01-01
Documentary, TV Movie
Commissioned by French television, this is a short documentary on the neo-classical statues found th...
Grandpa Called It Art
Released on: 1944-07-15
Documentary, History
This MGM Passing Parade series short takes a look at changing definitions of art in the United State...
The Original Richard McMahan
Released on: 2016-09-17
Documentary
The multi-talented outsider artist Richard McMahan is on a quest to painstakingly re-create thousand...
Cinema Now
Released on: 2022-04-08
Documentary
A fragmented collection of independent closed cinemas, in London during lockdown, captured on Super ...