Identity

What ist identity from the perspective of the bureucrats, city departments and public authorities?
To give an authentic answer, I collected all my personal IDs, passports, passport photos and official documents ever released. I scanned and animated them chronologically. The journey goes through three different political regimes:
communist, post-communist and western-democratic and is accompanied Ceauşescu's last speech.

Glossary
"Ungültig"=not valid
"Og. hat einen Antrag auf Verlängerung gestellt"=
The above-named has applied for an extesion
"Jos cismarul"= Down with the cobbler
"Libertate si paine" = Freedom and bread

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Film & Animation

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• bureucracy
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