I Don't Know

I Don't Know — Plot

A truly major work, I Don’t Know observes the relationship between a lesbian and a transgender person who prefers to be identified somewhere in between male and female, in an expression of personal ambiguity suggested by the film’s title. This nonfiction film – an unusual, partly staged work of semi-verité – is the first of Spheeris’s films to fully embrace what would become her characteristic documentary style: probing, intimate, uncompromising. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2014.

• Release date
• November 9, 1971
• Runtime
• 20 min
• Genres
• Documentary, Drama
• Director
• Penelope Spheeris

I Don't Know — Cast

Jimmie Michaels Self

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Dana Reuben Self

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Andy Spheeris Self

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Linda Spheeris Self