DIS-EASE
Film poster of 'Dis-Ease' with a stylized eye and text on a red background.
DIS-EASE
Film poster of 'Dis-Ease' with a stylized eye and text on a red background.
Science fictions, body politics - the real consequences of how we imagine disease

DIS-EASE

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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 Narratives20th 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.

Contagion Live | Brain Dunleavy, Science Journalist
“Visually striking and thought-provoking.”

e-Flux | Sophie Lewis, Film Critic
“An inquiry into capitalism's relationship to ill-health … tracing the histories of die-hard American fantasies. As she tells the story of various global ‘wars’ on disease, she draws from dozens of anti-racist scholar-activists.”

New Scientist | Simon Ings, Science Journalist
“A visual feast, with a strong internal logic.”

AWARDS
Official Selection | BlackStar Film Festival (U.S. Premiere)
Official Selection | ReFrame Film Festival (Canadian Premiere)

SCREENINGS
Tate Modern (U.K. Premiere)