It felt sexy – it’s an odd word to use, but it did feel thrilling.”, On the fourth day of the outbreak, Michelle was in the playground, where they all went to great lengths to make sure they were seen going through their symptoms. Greedy for their contents, I asked him if I could go through them. With mass hysteria people have to believe they are ill and collectively communicate that illness through psychological means.”. “Actually yes, the school was changing and becoming a comprehensive. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. It started with a phone conversation with Bev Zalcock, my former film teacher, who inspired me to become a film-maker. Her remains weren’t discovered until over two years later, when bailiffs broke in to repossess the property on grounds of unpaid rent. “Particularly as teenagers, and with social pressures on girls’ groups.” Females were also more likely to talk to each other about their symptoms and how they were feeling, which tended to spread the outbreak. Rumor’s going around that an evil spirit was brought back from the mountain. His film is partly based on The Devils of Loudun by Aldous Huxley, his historical non-fiction book about Father Grandier, a priest who was accused of bewitching a convent into hysterical fits. The most likely cause is that something on your server is hogging resources. Maxine came along with her actor friend, Michelle, unaware of how much the film would resonate with Michelle. I asked Simon about the stigma of illnesses of the mind, and the resistance to a diagnosis of mass psychogenic illness for many involved in the Le Roy outbreak. Morley’s early documentary The Alcohol Years was a self-portrait using this same method of gleaning: she put an advert in a Manchester newspaper (‘Did you know Carol Morley?’) and interviewed respondents who had known her between the ages of 16 and 21, during what she describes as her ‘lost period’. On the face of it, Carol Morley is an unlikely success story. Similar symptoms and beliefs were held during the Salem witch trials of 1692. Adolescents and pre-adolescents are particularly susceptible to them. It changes the very nature of what a film set has come to be. Her breakthrough film, Dreams of a Life, was the true story of Joyce Carol Vincent, who in 2003 died in her flat at the age of 38, seemingly of natural causes. Madness of the Dance screened at the Freud Museum, alongside a video entitled Programme by artist Richard Squires, which looked at Jean-Martin Charcot’s work in the 1880s at Salpêtrière, a women’s hospital in Paris, where he treated female patients going through so-called hysterical symptoms, including swooning and falling, for which no medical cause could be found. Nearly 10 years later, The Falling, my fictional account of an epidemic of fainting set in a girls’ grammar school in 1969, featuring Maisie Williams, Maxine Peake, Greta Scacchi, Monica Dolan and newcomer Florence Pugh, opens next month. There was a period of time where people at school pretended to faint. The loss of restraint releases a previously repressed behaviour and it offers an otherwise unavailable escape from the tensions of the time. Many medical professionals viewed the Le Roy outbreak as a mass psychogenic illness that had arisen from social and emotional stresses.
Her perennial collaborator is also her long-term partner, producer Cairo Cannon. My own teenage years were nothing like the rage-fuelled haze of The Alcohol Years – in fact I remember everything, often in painfully minute detail – and yet Morley’s story of triumph in the face of adversity is the kind that can resonate with everyone, even while she refuses to go after big-budget blockbusters.
Fainting, twitching, nausea… What is really going on when a group – and it’s almost always teenage girls – exhibit real symptoms without organic cause? She describes her journey into Audrey Amiss’s world, Carol Morley joins the ranks of Britain’s best film-makers with this enigmatic tale of apparent mass hysteria at a girls’ school, Skirt lengths, strict headmistresses, getting a record deal in the lower sixth … when Carol Morley and Tracey Thorn teamed up to make a film about mayhem at a girls school, the good times came flooding back, The director of The Falling recalls a precious cinema-going memory. While there may be events that are wrongly termed as psychogenic, such as an outbreak of food poisoning or people collapsing in a factory due to poor working conditions, there is always the danger that if people affected by mass hysteria begin to think there is some kind of toxic poison at work they may not be able to recover, preferring to think that maybe there is an undetectable medical cause because the alternative of thinking it is a mental phenomenon is too hard to accept.
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