The first video in a series about activists Donna Sheehan and Paul Reffell opens with Ms. Sheehan lying prone in a casket. “Welcome. Welcome to my life,” she says. The box, made a decade ago for a faux wake before Ms. Sheehan underwent dangerous heart surgery, seemed an appropriate way to begin a project titled “An Activist’s Undying Dream.” The couple raised over $5,000 last month for the planned eight-part series, whose subjects will range from their inspired anti-war protests to their work deconstructing gender roles, which they believe enable the aggressive male behavior that spurs a host of problems in modern society. The first video traces the Baring Witness campaign, which started in 2002 at the outset of the Iraq War. (“Remember when we weren’t at war?” Mr. Reffell asked.) The idea came to Ms. Sheehan, she explained, after a dream in which “there were these strokes of paint that turned into bodies, bodies lying on the ground. She woke up and thought, ‘Well, what if I arrange those bodies into words?’ And that’s how Baring Witness happened.” Fifty women showed up at Love Field in Point Reyes Station, stripped off their clothes and lay on the grass. Some were curled on their sides, some were straight and supine; together they formed the word “PEACE.” Soon, protestors in California, Illinois, Oregon, Colorado, Canada, South Africa, France, Argentina, Australia and the United Kingdom began protesting the war with their bodies, creating the same word, peace signs or other pacifist messages. Some even braved the snow. At the time, Ms. Sheehan was interviewed widely on television; though a few, like Sean Hannity on Fox News, criticized her anti-war stance, Mr. Reffell said there was no strong backlash. “We saw how powerful that image was, especially women lying naked in nature: the power of vulnerability.” The next video will focus on Ms. Sheehan’s seduction of Mr. Reffell (she is 84, he 63) and delve into their beliefs about patriarchy and evolutionary psychology; like other animals, women should pursue and select men, not vice versa, they say. The couple met about two decades ago, at a party in Marshall. “The big moment was… she came over after the party when we were still around the fire and said, ‘May I kiss you?’” Mr. Reffell recalled. “And I said okay. So that was the beginning of that, and the seduction continued.”