I Don't Know

1971 | 20 minutes | 4.0 ★ (3)

I Don't Know
  • Overview

    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.

  • Release Date

    09 November 1971

  • DirectingPenelope Spheeris
  • Budget

    $0.00

  • Revenue

    $0.00

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