Our Uniform

• Director: Yegane Moghaddam
• Category: Video Design — Short Film
• Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
• Project Brief: Create an animated short film that explores identity, childhood, and cultural restriction through personal storytelling.

An animated short film lands hardest when the form and the subject are made of the same thing. In "Our Uniform," Moghaddam builds around clothing because nothing else could carry this story the same way, treating the hijab not as symbol but as uniform: something put on before it was chosen, in a language she hadn't yet learned to argue with.

Hand-drawn textures and collage-like sequences keep the film inside the body rather than above it. Fabric patterns and the physical weight of a garment hold the rules of a girlhood in Iran the way objects do, more honestly than words, and childhood innocence and imposed morality sit together in the same frame without the film asking you to pick a side.

A fabric piece opens and something private spills out. That image carries the work of an entire argument in a single frame, and the film moves between imagination and restriction the way memory actually does: not in sequence, but in feeling.

An understated soundscape stops the whole thing from pushing too hard toward feeling. Moghaddam makes something that lingers the way a childhood detail does, small, specific, and longer-lasting than it has any right to be.