‘Trans Memoria’ Director Readies for ‘Trans Love’: ‘I Met Religious, Racist, Transphobic People. And I Slept With Them’ (EXCLUSIVE)
29.06.2024 - 09:21
/ variety.com
Marta Balaga “Trans Memoria” director Victoria Verseau is ready for “Trans Love.” The second part of the planned trilogy about her transition, it will be a fictionalized take on the life-changing trip she took in her twenties. “I decided to go on a road trip in the U.S. and hitchhike for three months.
By myself! I’ve never heard of hitchhiking trans girls and it was an extremely dangerous adventure, but I was young and naïve. I am glad I was, because I have experienced the most wonderful things. And the most terrible things,” she says.
“Back then, I just started taking hormones. I didn’t know how I would be perceived by others: as a gay boy, trans person or as a woman? But I longed for love, and sex. My friends were losing their virginities and my life was on hold.
This trip turned into my own sexual revolution.” Verseau, who will be casting in the fall, will reveal her “biggest secrets” in the film. “I met so many straight cis men on this trip. I met religious people, racist people, transphobic people.
And I slept with them,” reveals the Swedish filmmaker. “It could have ended badly and sometimes I wonder how close I got to winding up like so many other trans women – murdered. It’s fine if this film makes the audience uncomfortable.
I don’t mind if it’s scandalous.” Her journey culminated in San Francisco, where Verseau had facial feminization surgery. Now, she relives the realities of her painful transition in doc “Trans Memoria,” premiering at Karlovy Vary Film Festival. Sold by Outplay Films, it was produced by Malin Hüber for Her Film, and co-produced by Mathilde Raczymow for Les Films du Bilboquet.