
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.

Jimmie Michaels
Self

Dana Reuben
Self

Andy Spheeris
Self

Linda Spheeris
Self

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November 9, 1971
20m
4.4
Penelope Spheeris
Penelope Spheeris
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