Living Icons
- 2015
- 10m
This exciting, short ethnographic film takes us into a unique subculture of tattooed--and tattooing--Eastern Orthodox Christians in the United States. Members of this group 'ink' themselves ... Read allThis exciting, short ethnographic film takes us into a unique subculture of tattooed--and tattooing--Eastern Orthodox Christians in the United States. Members of this group 'ink' themselves with iconographic images, phrases, and religious symbols that are spiritually significant ... Read allThis exciting, short ethnographic film takes us into a unique subculture of tattooed--and tattooing--Eastern Orthodox Christians in the United States. Members of this group 'ink' themselves with iconographic images, phrases, and religious symbols that are spiritually significant to them. The dilemmas posed by hybrid identity, characteristic of many Americans living in... Read all