The Directors review: Five intimate short films about psychosis.

Recreating experiences of psychosis leads Marcus Coates to dark places

Artangel/Marcus Coates

Five short films by Marcus Coates

At venues in London from 4 September to 30 October

IN A flat in a social housing block in London’s Pimlico, artist Marcus Coates is being variously nudged, bullied and shocked out of his sense of what is real.

Controlling the process is Lucy Dempster, a teenager in recovery from psychosis. In his ear, Coates hears Dempster prompt him in how to behave, when to sit, what to touch and what to think …

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