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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Penelope Spheeris Director · Robert Schoeller Cinematographer
United States release November 9, 1971 · Produced in United States
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Release dates
United States · March 11, 1971
Premiere · Ann Arbor Film Festival
United States · November 9, 1971
Theatrical
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