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This Ink Runs Deep

Asia Youngman · Canada · Documentary · 16 min · 19K views

Directed by Asia Youngman · Starring Jana Angulalik, Kwiaahwah Jones, Dion Kaszas, Audie Murray · 2019

Indigenous tattoo artists across Canada are reviving ancestral tattoo traditions that were nearly erased by colonization.

A moving look at tattooing as an act of cultural reclamation, told by the artists bringing these traditions back.

This Ink Runs Deep features Indigenous tattoo artists across Canada who are reviving ancestral traditions that disappeared during colonization. Through the film, we learn about the practices that were thought to be lost

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