The Icarus Project

Mad Brilliance in Motion is a collaborative video project that seeks to gather the collective narrative of The Icarus Project in multimedia form. We are seeking contributions of video pod's (3-7minute mini-video's) featuring words, images and audio files generated by Icarus members to create a collection of moving mosaics that represent this vibrant, diverse community of people exploring the space between madness and brilliance. Videos will be posted to a youtube account held by The Icarus Project for the purpose of giving voice and movement to the stories that we have captured and created on these pages

The Icarus Project is looking for video entries to be featured in an upcoming 10th anniversary web video currently in production. The vision is to have a montage of faces and voices each reading one of their favorite lines from an Icarus Project publication, meeting agreements, mission statement, conversations on the website, lines from Crooked Beauty, or anywhere that has been inspiring to you.

To change the way our society thinks it is going to take a combination of inspiring vision, face to face organizing, while being grounded in practices that enable us to tune into something greater than ourselves. A Mental Health Recovery Movement is a good start, but frankly I am more interested in a movement that uses the language of “transformation”, a movement that recognizes the powerful of our collective potential to transform the world, that isn’t willing to compromise our visions of a better world, has the ability to capture many people’s imaginations, and is capable of building coalitions across many boundaries.