Carol Morley: ‘Mass hysteria is a powerful group activity’

Fainting, twitching, nausea… What is really going on when a group – and it’s almost always teenage girls – exhibit real symptoms without organic cause? Carol Morley explains how her fascination with mass psychogenic illness led to her film The Falling, the story of a fainting epidemic at a girls’ school• Carol Morley interview: ‘Maxine Peake is my muse’Last summer, a mystery illness struck the remote town of El Carmen de Bolívar, northern Colombia. In the four months betwe