I Don't Know
1971, English. Directed by Penelope Spheeris.
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.
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- 9 November 1971
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- United States of America
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- Penelope Spheeris
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Who directed I Don't Know?
I Don't Know (1971) was directed by Penelope Spheeris and stars Jimmie Michaels, Dana Reuben, Andy Spheeris.