See the Bigger Picture with Zackary Drucker
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Filmmaker and artist Zackary Drucker, co-director of the HBO documentary series "The Lady and the Dale" (2021), reveals how the use of archival materials from the Outfest UCLA Legacy Project collection enabled her to construct new stories and bring hidden trans histories to light. Learn more on our blog: ucla.in/40fV5wR
“See the Bigger Picture” is a series of short films from the UCLA Film & Television Archive made by UCLA alumni and student filmmakers. The goal of each film is to present a unique story — and to expand the view into the regenerative role of the Archive, from advancing UCLA’s research mission and preserving cultural heritage to showcasing international cinema and championing historically marginalized creators and communities.
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Director/producer/editor: Gwendolyn Infusino. Director of photography/colorist/post-production supervisor: John Clifton. Producer: Stephen Heleker. Assistant director: Hamoun Dolatshahi. Camera operator: Sasha Timan. Sound mixer: John Bin Zhao. Re-recording mixer: Frank Gaeta. Assistant editor: Gregory Armstrong. Production assistant: CJ Christensen. Production assistant: Sophie Hand.
Complete Record: Filmmaker and artist Zackary Drucker, co-director of the HBO documentary series "The Lady and the Dale" (2021), reveals how the use of archival materials from the Outfest UCLA Legacy Project collection enabled her to construct new stories and bring hidden trans histories to light. Learn more on our blog: ucla.in/40fV5wR “See the Bigger Picture” is a series of short films from the UCLA Film & Television Archive made by UCLA alumni and student filmmakers. The goal of each film is to present a unique story — and to expand the view into the regenerative role of the Archive, from advancing UCLA’s research mission and preserving cultural heritage to showcasing international cinema and championing historically marginalized creators and communities. ----- Director/producer/editor: Gwendolyn Infusino. Director of photography/colorist/post-production supervisor: John Clifton. Producer: Stephen Heleker. Assistant director: Hamoun Dolatshahi. Camera operator: Sasha Timan. Sound mixer: John Bin Zhao. Re-recording mixer: Frank Gaeta. Assistant editor: Gregory Armstrong. Production assistant: CJ Christensen. Production assistant: Sophie Hand.
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[Interviewer] How have the female hormones affected you physically? [Jimmy] People think LSD is a trip, they should try taking hormones. [Interviewer laughs] I'm Zackary Drucker, I am a filmmaker and an artist. I created a series called The Lady and the Dale about Geraldine Elizabeth Carmichael. She was a very elusive figure. She had changed her gender and her name. There was no ephemera from her, nothing that we could find. All that really existed was mostly housed here at the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Without the Archive, the series really would not have been possible. We didn't have much footage of her, but we did have Behind Every Good Man. We did have Queens at Heart. We could use these other representations of transness from the '60s and '70s to create a fuller picture of our protagonist. There are so few renderings of transgender life through history that often times we rely on cinematic representation to find ourselves. The thing that I'm most excited about is how much is still out there that's yet to be found. The artist Zackary Drucker is fascinating. By working with the UCLA Film & Television Archive, she's uncovered stories from the Archive's collection that no one would have necessarily ever seen or understood. UCLA holds the largest collection of queer moving images in the world. The Outfest UCLA Legacy Project was formed to preserve queer moving images so that future generations could see them. [Drucker] In 2010, I shot a film called At Least You Know You Exist, which I made with an elder legend, Flawless Sabrina. After living with this footage in my closet for years, I deposited the film to the UCLA Film & Television Archive and they graciously digitized the film, restored it. It's such a deep honor to have your work acquired by the Archive. [Drucker] With trans people at the center of a culture war, there's a tremendous amount of comfort in knowing that even if your bodily autonomy or your life is somehow compromised by the state, that what you create can continue to live and impact people into the future.
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