Zackary Drucker's At Least You Know You Exist (Excerpt).

Zackary Drucker and Mother Flawless Sabrina investigate the erasure of transgender history in At Least You Know You Exist (2011). In this excerpt, Drucker engages in a trans-generational dialogue with Mother Flawless Sabrina inside of her New York City apartment--a salon for queers and artists since 1968. The acts the artists perform can be view as embodied repertoires that transmit memory, identity, and culture across time and space. They also reflect how transgender history has largely been excluded from archives and how such history has mainly been passed down from one generation to the next through orality. Furthermore, Drucker and Sabrina use film to record their artistic relationship through a trans lens, as both creators and subjects of the work. The artists create a new vision for transgender performativity and construct a historical narrative on their own terms. This is most evident when Drucker proclaims to Mother Flawless Sabrina at the end of the excerpt: "Because of you, I know that I exist." Ultimately, the film becomes a document of transgender history for future generations to access.

Zackary Drucker is a visual artist and cultural producer based in Los Angeles. Drucker's work examines perceptions of gender and sexuality through a transgender lens. Her art has been performed and exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Hammer Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Venice Biennale-Swiss Off-Site Pavilion, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, among other venues. Drucker is an Emmy-nominated Producer for the docu-series This Is Me (2015), as well as a Co-Producer on the Golden Globe and Emmy-winning television series Transparent (2014-). She is a cast member on the E! docu-series I Am Cait (2015). Drucker is represented by Luis De Jesus Los Angeles. www.zackarydrucker.com Mother Flawless Sabrina (Jack Doroshow) is a legendary drag queen and an icon of queer underground culture. Sabrina directed the drag beauty pageant The Nationals in the United States from 1958-1968. She stared in the documentary The Queen (1968), and worked as a consultant on the films Midnight Cowboy (1969), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), and Myra Breckinridge (1970). In later years, Sabrina became involved in politics advocating for gay marriage and working with Hilary Clinton on transgender issues. She is an active member of the queer community and a resource for transgender people in the arts. Sabiina, along with Zackary Drucker and Diana Tourjee, founded the Flawless Sabrina Archive in 2014 to preserve and make accessible the rich legacy of her lifework.