Life Beyond Ink Series

This is Life Beyond Ink. An independent, cinematic indie style filmed documentary series that dives deep into the cultures and stories of tattooing across the world.

The series follows Dakota Weik, a tattoo ethnographer and filmmaker who sits down with artists and spends a day inside their lives, learning who they are and where their work comes from. It is a raw experience of learning about tattoos, its history, and its art, told through the people who not only paved the way for what tattooing is today but who continue to push the craft forward.

This is not journalism. This is not just documentation. This is storytelling.. Dakota travels the world with his best friend Mike, documenting everyone from indigenous practitioners to everyday tattooers to the masters who have spent their lives shaping the craft, all to protect and preserve the art of tattooing.

A Halls of Ink Documentary Series. 

Produced by: Dakota Weik & Michael Corman