I Don't Know

• Movie

  Type

• 1971

  Year

• 20m

  Runtime

• ★ 4.4

  Rating

• Documentary / Drama

  Genre

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.

Cast

Jimmie Michaels

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Dana Reuben

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Andy Spheeris

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Linda Spheeris

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