I Don't Know
1971•20m•4.4•Released
DocumentaryDrama
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.
Director
Penelope Spheeris
Writer
Penelope Spheeris
Languages
English
Cast
Jimmie Michaels
Self
Dana Reuben
Self
Andy Spheeris
Self
Linda Spheeris
Self
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