Author/ Cultural Bearer / Hand Tap Tattoo Practitioner
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A ethnographic film by Kayla Sotomil, The Modern Mambabatok follows the story of Lane Wilcken as he travels the United States practicing ancestral l Filipino hand-tap tattooing. Through Wilcken’s personal and professional journeys as a tattoo practitioner, audiences gain insight into the history of ancient hand-tap tattooing of the Philippines its near extinction, and its recent revival and practice in the Filipino diaspora. The Modern Mambabatok chronicles this resurgence of hand-tap tattooing and how batok, hand-tap tattoos, are used to express Filipino and Filipino American identity today.
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Lane Wilcken is a scholar, cultural tattoo practitioner and advocate for the the critically endangered practice of "batok" or cultural tattoos of the Philippines. He also has studied other related indigenous traditions of the Philippines and greater Pacific with over three decades of research and experience. His mother is from the Philippines and his father is of English and Scandinavian descent.
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Lane is the author of "Filipino Tattoos Ancient to Modern" -and- "The Forgotten Children of Maui." He is also a contributing writer to "Back from the Crocodile's Belly: Philippine Babaylan Studies and the Struggle for Indigenous Memory" and "Shamanic Transformations: True Stories of the Moment of Awakening," as well as several articles for various magazines and journals.
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