Release Year: 2011
Synopsis:
In At Least You Know You Exist (2011), Zackary Drucker, a visual artist and activist, collaborates with the legendary drag queen Mother Flawless Sabrina to explore the erasure of transgender history, bridging generations and creating a unique dialogue about identity, memory, and culture. The documentary is a profound reflection on transgender history, culture, and performativity—both as a personal exploration of identity and as a public declaration of historical significance for future generations.
The film centers around a series of intimate conversations between Drucker and Sabrina, set in the latter's New York City apartment, which has served as a haven for queers and artists since 1968. Through these conversations and the performance of acts that draw on both the historical and contemporary experiences of transgender people, the film weaves a powerful narrative about the transmission of memory, culture, and identity.
At its core, At Least You Know You Exist is a film that uses the medium of cinema to document, preserve, and reconstruct a historical narrative that has often been marginalized or erased from mainstream archives. It offers an alternative vision of transgender performativity—one that is created by trans individuals for themselves, on their own terms.
