Inkprints
Inkprints is a video account of three tattoo stories. The film uses advanced reality technology to create layers of contexts, values and images that guide heroes in choosing tattoos.
The project explores the depth of personal motives behind each choice of tattoo and invites viewers to see not only aesthetics but also emotional content in the tattoo. All the filters are structured by the type of reference: facial effects transmit the emotional state of the hero, on the fingers are important memories, and tattoos are the response to sudden impulses, the significance of which is highlighted by pre- and procedural animations in forward-looking reduction.
A birthday tattoo is an important step in life, a moment when internal transformations are reflected in physical change.
On such an important day, the heroine wants to change not only internally, but also externally. The filter on her face reflects her actions from impulse to result.
The glass tattoo keeps one of the hero’s father’s drawings. The marks on the body are like a bridge between generations, a symbol of intimacy and memories.
The deconstruct of an old notebook cell is a way to put a hero in nostalgia. Associations work on the basis of warm memories.
A tattoo made in youth, as a way to express the inner world in a difficult period of life, reflects emotions and feelings that cannot be conveyed in words.
Instead of popular hieroglyphs with obvious meanings, the heroine preferred an abstract but expressive symbol — thorns, leaving space for interpretation.