Crooked Beauty is a poetic documentary that chronicles artist-activist Jacks McNamara's transformative journey from childhood abuse to psych ward inpatient to pioneering mental health advocacy. It is an intimate portrait of her intense personal quest to live with courage and dignity, and a powerful critique of standard psychiatric treatments. Poignant testimonials connect the fissures and fault lines of human nature to the unstable topography and mercurial weather patterns of the San Francisco Bay Area. Crooked Beauty reshapes mental health stigmas through a new healing culture and political model for living with madness as a tool of creativity, inspiration and hope.
Crooked Beauty is a poetic documentary that chronicles artist-activist Jacks McNamara's transformative journey from childhood abuse to psych ward inpatient to pioneering mental health advocacy. It is an intimate portrait of her intense personal quest to live with courage and dignity, and a powerful critique of standard psychiatric treatments. Poignant testimonials connect the fissures and fault lines of human nature to the unstable topography and mercurial weather patterns of the San Francisco Bay Area. Crooked Beauty reshapes mental health stigmas through a new healing culture and political model for living with madness as a tool of creativity, inspiration and hope.
"This inspiring movie will lead you to think anew about what it may be like to experience 'madness', and the best pathways to recovery." - Robert Whitaker, Author of Anatomy of an Epidemic and Mad in America
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Crooked Beauty in Multiple Languages on Mad Dance Trilogy DVD!
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Crooked Beauty is now subtitled in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Hebrew as part of the Mad Dance Mental Film Trilogy. More informtion here:
http://www.maddancementalhealthfilmtrilogy.com
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