I Don't Know

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.

3.2

20 min

Cast

Jennifer Michaels

as Self

Dana Reuben

as Self

Andy Spheeris

as Self

Linda Spheeris

as Self

Director

Penelope Spheeris