DIS-EASE

OFFICIAL SELECTION - BlackStar Film Festival | OFFICIAL SELECTION - ReFrame Film Festival | Premiered at the Tate Modern | "A visual feast, with a strong internal logic ... packs a punch about how we see disease." - Simon Ings, New Scientist | "Visually striking and thought-provoking" - Brian Dunleavy, Contagion Live Medical Humanities • History of Medicine • Disease and Disability in Popular Culture • Outbreak Narratives • 20th Century Propaganda • Legacies of Colonial Medicine • Neocolonialism and Global Health Histories • Tuberculosis and Sanatoria • Antibiotics and Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) • Environmental Justice • Feminist Science Studies • Scientific Imaging • The "War on Disease" Date of Completion: 2024 | Run Time: 105 minutes | Language: English | Captions: Yes | Audio Description: Yes | Includes: Transcript & Discussion Guide | Director & Producer: Mariam Ghani | Executive Producer: Alysa Nahmias | Consulting Producers: Day Al-Mohamed & Wendy Ettinger | Co-Writers/Co-Editors: Mariam Ghani & Emily Eberhart | Cinematography: Adam Hogan | Score: Qasim Naqvi DIS-EASE is about how we imagine disease, and how that affects what we do when we encounter illness, outbreaks, doctors, treatments, and disability in real life. It dives deep into the weird, wild archives of medical imaging, public health messaging, and pop-culture outbreak narratives to understand how ideas have moved between science, science fiction, and political ideology over the past century. Ultimately, DIS-EASE is a provocation to re-think how we define both the “public” and “health” in public health – who is included, what counts as care, and what it means to be sick or well.