The modern mambabatok : Lane Wilcken and Filipino tattooing in the diaspora / an ethnographic film by Kayla Sotomil.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Sotomil, Kayla, filmmaker.

Wilcken, Lane, on-screen participant.

University of Southern California, film production company, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tattooing--Philippines--History.

Tattooing.

Filipino Americans--Social life and customs.

Filipino Americans.

Tattooing--Technique.

Indigenous peoples--Philippines.

Indigenous peoples.

Wilcken, Lane.

Philippines.

Genre:

Ethnographic films.

Short films.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (30 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Place of Publication:

[Los Angeles, CA] : [University of Southern California], [Kayla Sotomil], 2019.

Language Note:

English dialogue.

System Details:

DVD-R, NTSC; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation.

Summary:

The modern mambabatok follows the story of Lane Wilcken as he travels the United States practicing traditional Filipino hand-tap tattooing. The film showcases Wilcken's engagement with the Filipino diasporic community as an educator of indigenoous Philippine culture and as a mambabatok, traditional tattoo practitioner. Through Wilcken's personal and professional journeys, audiences gain insight into the history of ancient Filipino hand-tap tattooing, its near extinction, and its recent revival and practice in the Filipino diaspora. The Modern Mambabatok chronicles this resurgence of traditional hand-tap tattooing and how batoks, hand-tap tattoos, are used to express Filipino and Filipino American idendity today.

Notes:

"Presented to the faculty of the Graduate School, University of Southern California, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts in Visual Anthropology (MVA)."--Closing frames.,

OCLC:

1453528764