I Don't Know

IMDb 4.4 1971 • 20 min • DocumentaryDrama

Director

Penelope Spheeris

Country

US

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Jimmie Michaels
Jimmie Michaels Self
Dana Reuben
Dana Reuben Self
Andy Spheeris
Andy Spheeris Self
Linda Spheeris
Linda Spheeris Self