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    Inky Soul

    Hui-Mei CHEN 2012 Taiwan Documentary color 78min Mandarin DigiBeta
    Tattoo can be regarded as a declaration, a treatment, a responsibility to body, and a diary of one's life. With the extraordinary pain, tattoo has significant meanings itself and brings purification to life, helping us to investigate the value of our lives calmly and without banter.
    Yang, a tattoo master, lost his right hand in an accident in his childhood, but he didn't give up himself. Instead he devoted himself to creating extraordinary aesthetics of tattoo art and has won lots of international awards and respects. Hua, the only female tattoo artist in the film, gave up everything for her tattoo dream and went to Kaohsiung to learn from Yang. Her delicate and unique work stands out in the masculine tattoo world.
    Yung is also an outstanding tattoo artist and his daughter wants to be a tattoo artist since her childhood. Yung vows to pass down all his tattoo skills to his daughter. It means the very first tattoo family in Taiwan is about to form. Also, Yung's wife has tattoos from him all over her body, which are the most romantic symbols representing their love.
    Inky Soul is a self-discovering journey exploring the true meaning of human's value, describing a story of dreams, insistence, excellence and pass-down missions.

    Director

    Hui-Mei CHEN

    CHEN was born in Tainan, Taiwan. She received her B.A. at Department of Mass Communication, TKU in 2002, and M.A. at School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Now, she works as a producer for Dandelion Production, and focuses on documentary production.

    Hui-Mei CHEN

    2012 Transcending Love

    2010 La ménagerie de Betty

    2012 Trekking the Way Home

    Prima Donna

    Inky Soul

    2011 Veterinary Medicine in Taiwan

    2005 Missed


    2003 Swinging

     

    Production Company / Sales Company 蒲公英電影事業有限公司 Dandelion Production 
    Email: vivihuimeichen@gmail.com 

     

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