The Body Piercers - 45-min Documentary Tattoo Videos - Tattoo Video Clips & Movies

Sep 1998As an expression of urban feeling at the end of the millennium the body piercers are emerging everywhere. Dismissed by many as social misfits, their pierces and tattoos supposedly mark them out as drug addicts and lazy youth. But this is a social movement. Anarchy as mission statement. Body piercing as uniform.Lurking in the heart of Lisbon\'s sleepy suburbs is a crucible for anarchy. Behind the classy façade of this town house there are a bunch of people looking for an alternative to the 9 to 5, the mortgage and the kids. It\'s a mixed bag. Paulo and Joanna are here because they got into debt: a normal life turned sour. They\'re trying to spruce the Place up. In the courtyard there\'s Rat. An ageing alcoholic, he just doesn\'t get it. Why would people live in a house with no running water when they could do better? He\'s happy though, they let him stay in the house with all his bad habits. After allanarchistshave to live and let live...Miguel is starting a revolution. \"I look at people, at the bourgeoisie, and their stuff is no good. They are slaves of everything they have, they have to maintain all the shit that surrounds them, the little car, the house in the nice area...they have to feed all of it, all those vices\". Throughhis music he wants to turn people against the consumer culture that binds them. Railing about MacDonalds is just the beginning!

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