About this project
YOUR ID PLEASE!
A Documentary about uniforms
Your ID Please! is a feature documentary that weaves together the lives of four frontline characters to explore how the uniform can be an expression of human belonging, or of being made to belong.
Schoolgirl, prisoner, maid, marching band.
Uniforms are worn by millions of people around the world every day. They communicate visual messages about who we are, and how we perform our identities. Transforming the powers and freedoms of those who wear them, uniforms oil the subconscious wheel of human behaviour.
Divided into vignettes entitled Love, Fear, Subversion, and Conformity, Your I.D Please! is an image-driven, series of four inter-woven character portraits which explore uniform as a visual language that expresses the struggle for human identity, following:
- A London teenager who wears the Jilbab to school.
- A waitress at a “maid café” in Shibuya, Tokyo who wears a fetishized French maid uniform to work.
- A member of a youth marching band in New Orleans.
- A member of The Numbers gang in a Johannesburg prison who's intricate home-made tattoos function as a secret language.
It is our goal that with a little help from you, and the Kickstarter collective, we will be able to take this project into phase two, shoot and cut a trailer - and seal those deals with funders who like what they've seen so far. Your donation will be used to cover the travel costs for on-site research and trailer production.
Your ID Please! is a communal project, so please be a part of it! And please pass this along to friends and family, post it on your blog, Twitter and Facebook pages... Help us get the word out!
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A large, limited edition art print from the online gallery www.maxalot.com. On top of that, you'll also receive VIP invites to the premiere party in Amsterdam or London (or both) + a small, limited edition art print from the online gallery www.maxalot.com + an exclusive digital preview of the film prior to release (as described above) + a limited edition DVD mailed to your home + a "special thanks" credit at the end of the film, and our eternal gratitude.
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A special tour on the canals of Amsterdam, hosted by captain/producer Danielle Guirguis and sailor/director Lotje Sodderland, with homemade cupcakes and champagne! And of course VIP invites to the premiere party in Amsterdam or London (or both) + a small, limited edition art print from the online gallery www.maxalot.com + an exclusive digital preview of the film prior to release (as described above) + a limited edition DVD mailed to your home + a "special thanks" credit at the end of the film, and our eternal gratitude.
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Lotje Sodderland - Director (London)
Lotje Sodderland is a documentary producer-director, creating non-linear, non-fiction content for clients like ad agency Mother London, and award-winning production companies Submarine (Amsterdam), and HonkyTonk Films (Paris).
She also writes about transformative digital culture for a variety of leading online and print publications, and regularly speaks at events such as BANFF Interactive Screen (Alberta), Netherlands Film Festival (Utrecht), and Open Video Conference (New York).
Previously, Lotje was director and co-founder of Maxalot Gallery, commissioning digital and interactive art exhibitions with genre pioneers such as Joshua Davis, Universal Everything, and The Designers Republic in Amsterdam, Barcelona and New York.
www.minilot.tv
Danielle Guirguis - Producer (Amsterdam)
Producer Danielle Guirguis founded her Amsterdam-based production company Smarthouse Films last year. Guirguis has worked on many award winning productions including Paul Verhoeven’s ‘Black Book’, ‘Stricken’ by Reinout Oerlemans and ‘The Happy Housewife’ by Antoinette Beumer as well as many others which have been selected at film festivals around the world.
Smarthouse is currently working on four book adaptations and several documentary projects. In August 2011, the short film 'Undertow' will be released in Dutch cinema's.
www.smarthousefilms.nl
Isaac Niemand - DoP (Sao Paulo)
Isaac Niemand otherwise known as Frank Kalero was a resident at Fabrica de Benetton (Italia), and the founder and director of the OjodePez magazine (Spain). He co-founded Invaliden1 art Gallery and in 2009 he also founded the World According To magazine, both in Berlin. At present he is director of the pan-Asian photography magazine, Punctum and OjoDePez Barcelona, the new go-to event for professionals and lovers of documentary photography worldwide. As a filmmaker he makes music videos, animations, and short documentaries, dividing his time between Berlin, Sao Paulo and New Delhi. Bloody glamorous.
http://kalero.net/
