Illustrated Man

Illustrated Man

Production country: 
dk
Year: 
1995
Duration: 
26'
Edition: 
1996
Format: 
film/video

An experimental documentary about tattooing, piercing, sex and body cults. For instance: one man holds a wooden plank up to his mouth and stretches out his tongue, a second man draws two long nails out of his nostrils, picks up a hammer and nails the tongue to the plank. Some fail to see the sense in this; for others it is sensual, different, grandiose. And they supply details: how, where, why, when, how often, where ... and, surprisingly, some want nothing more than to look normal.

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