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‘You have to be able to handle the normality that comes after a dream’: Victoria Verseau on ‘Trans Memoria’

Interviews, Long Reads - Olivia Popp - 21 February 2025

TROMSØ 2025: In this wide-ranging conversation, the writer-director speaks on her relationship to documentary/fiction, the importance of the mystified world, and creating films about the trans experience that aren’t exclusively uplifting.

Victoria Verseau in her film 'Trans Memoria'

There is Hope, I Think – ‘Trans Memoria’ (2024) by Victoria Verseau

Reviews - Olivia Popp - 22 January 2025

TROMSØ 2025: The Swedish filmmaker offers a raw and personal collage of her medical transition by returning to the treatment centre where her gender-affirming surgery took place in 2012, accompanied by others preparing to do the same.

Charm in the Wake of Colonialism – ‘We Were Dangerous’ (2023) by Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu

Reviews - Olivia Popp - 20 January 2025

TROMSØ 2025: In 1950s New Zealand, three teen girls boldly take on the dark and violent surviving institutions of British colonialism —and the result is surprisingly cutesy, if not a little too much so.