Tell Me Everything Will Be Okay (formerly: The Quiet World)
a film by Jenni Olson
Lyrical, digressive, and innovative in scope and form, Jenni Olson’s latest 16mm essay film portrays the contemplative urban landscapes of California as a backdrop for reflections on growing up queer and gender non-conforming in Minnesota. This poetic exploration of butch identity and experience offers a diverse array of digressions on history, memory, grief, and pining over unavailable women. Tell Me Everything Will Be Okay transcends conventional categories of cinema as it explores vulnerability as a path to self-acceptance; nostalgia as a key to lost wisdom and returning us to this moment; and storytelling itself as a mode of survival.
Currently in pre-production.
