I AM NOT OK

REVIEWS

https://criticaldance.org/film-review-i-am-not-ok/
Review in Critical Dance by Kristen Hedberg, 2024

"To paraphrase our local Red Hook art hero, Tiffiney Davis, in the remarkable film " I AM NOT OK" by Gabrielle Lansner included in the Brooklyn Museum's survey: " Art Saves Lives."  
Roger Bell, Red Hook Star Review., 2024
https://www.star-revue.com/art-is-all-around-us-especially-this-fall-by-roger-bell/

Your film is glorious. Powerful. Beautiful. Urgent. 
Patricia McCormick, author of Sold, Cut, 2024

AUDIENCE FEEDBACK

"I AM NOT OK" is an exceptional piece of work that portrays that gut wrenching feeling that we as mothers feel every day when our children leave our homes. I know I deal with that every day"

"A mother’s painful and powerful lament is merged with dance, film, photography, words and music. 

“I AM NOT OK” is a reminder and an awakening for some."

"It was so powerful and cohesive, moving, gut wrenching, forceful, unapologetic and gracefully dignified, wow wow wow. Congratulations on your terrific work that is also activism reaching toward change." 

"I commend you on your work... when the events,  george floyd, took place left many dark clouds over heads especially black families it changed a lot how we do operate / live our everyday... I see and recognize my mother in her in the softness of her skin, wearing yellow which means to me a warm embrace.. I hear my mother in her.  george floyd happened but nobody realized how much change it brought into our homes. Conversations go soo much different now. Society never ask how black mothers coping with fear of losing a son & I know firsthand how my mother always reminds us when we are out in the world we have a list of instructions. I doubt those conversations are happening in every home but I know it's happening in mine. Thank you for your softness your ability to show us who we are through our mothers."

"And thank you for doing a piece like this, to speak out about the dark nightmare of injustices towards black people."

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