THE MERMAID WARD
AN ACUTE PSYCHOTIC EXPERIENCE
A FEATURE DOCUMENTARY BY MISCHA JAKUPCAK
The Mermaid Ward, an autobiographical documentary, chronicles the events which preceded a psychotic episode Mischa Jakupcak experienced years ago. It culminated in a spiritual emergency where she believed all the world to be a film set and herself cast as the lead actor. Mischa found herself admitted to the Mermaid Ward, a psychiatric hospital in Hackney. There, armed with smuggled cameras, she slowly reconstructed her fractured reality one photograph at a time.
