Linked to Ink

Original title Linked to Ink

The short documentary film “Linked to Ink” uses qualitative social research methods to examine four young people living in Vienna and their relation to tattoos. Based on the protagonists’ stories a complex narrative about the individual motifs and meanings of this permanent kind of body modification unfolds. The film shows a selection of socio-cultural reality, in which – in contrary to conservative assumptions – tattooing has developed into an individualized form of art and representation, whose wearers belong to a well educated urban middle class.

Author/s Joerg Oschmann, Iris Omari Ansong

2014-2017 Study Cultural and Social Anthropology at Universität Wien
2007-2011 Study Filmproduktion at Filmakademie Wien
2001-2016 freelancing Lighting Electritian (several Cinema and TV Movies) – Berlin, Wien
2000-2002 freelancing Cameraassistent (NTV, ZDF, RTL) – Berlin

born 1979 in East-Berlin

Research Joerg Oschmann, Iris Omari Ansong
Photography Joerg Oschmann, Iris Omari Ansong
Sound Joerg Oschmann, Iris Omari Ansong
Editing Joerg Oschmann, Iris Omari Ansong