I Don't Know

• Cast: Jimmie Michaels, Dana Reuben, Andy Spheeris, Linda Spheeris
• Duration: 20 minutes
• Genre: Documentary, Drama
• Rating: 4/10
• Release Date: 1971-11-09

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.