Proxima Competition 2024 / Trans Memoria / Sweden, France 2024
“I collect. I document. I write down my memories. I’m afraid they’ll disappear.” This is how Victoria Verseau introduces her intimate documentary diary, in which she returns to Thailand and to the year 2012, when she underwent gender-affirming surgery. She had long awaited this moment, but then came feelings of uncertainty, amplified by the death of a close friend. The conceptual artist adopts an almost archaeological approach to the past and lays bare the process of writing a personal story that is intrinsically linked to the creation of her own identity. In this deeply felt debut she reveals the joyful aspects and also the dark recesses of transition and, bringing other testimonies into play as well, she critically examines what defines women as women.
Sandra Hezinová
72 min / Color, DCP
World premiere
Director Victoria Verseau
/ Screenplay Victoria Verseau
/ Dir. of Photography Daniel Takács
/ Music Arnaud Ledoux
/ Sound Arnaud Ledoux
/ Editor Neil Wigardt
/ Producer Malin Hüber
/ Production HER Film
/ Coproduction Les Films du Bilboquet, Gotlands Filmfond, Pictanovo, Les Fresnoy
/ Sales Outplay Films
/ Contact HER Film, Mirjam Wiekenkamp
Victoria Verseau (1988, Sweden). Selected filmography: To Be Unclear (2014, short doc.), Exercise One (2016, short), Trans Memoria (2024).
HER Film
Sjöbjörnsvägen 4, 117 67, Stockholm
Sweden
E-mail: [email protected]
Outplay Films
212 rue Saint-Maur, 75010, Paris
France
Phone: +33 140 389 452
E-mail: [email protected]
Mirjam Wiekenkamp
Germany
Phone: +31 6 28652249
E-mail: [email protected]
Victoria Verseau
Film Director
Athena Shamloo
Protagonist
Malin Hüber
Producer
Mathilde Raczymow
Producer
Petra Dahlberg
Film Crew
Mirjam Wiekenkamp
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