Crew
Penelope Spheeris
Writer
RS
Robert Schoeller
Director of Photography
Penelope Spheeris
Director
Cast
Jimmie Michaels
Self
DR
Dana Reuben
Self
AS
Andy Spheeris
Self
LS
Linda Spheeris
Self
I Don't Know
197120m4.4 (5)
DocumentaryDrama
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.
