Dis-Ease is about how we view 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.
Dis-Ease
- Mariam Ghani
- United States
- 2024
- 120 mins
- Sun Jan 26
- 12:00 PM
- Market Hall
- In-Person Only
An archival documentary about the real consequences of how we imagine disease.
- English
- Captioned in English
- Environment, Health/Mental Health and Ability
About the Filmmaker
- mariamghani.com/dis-ease
- instagram.com/mostlywindows
- Filmmaker: Mariam Ghani
- Writer: Mariam Ghani, Emily Eberhart
- Producer: Mariam Ghani, Alysa Nahmias, Wendy Ettinger, Day Al-Mohamed
- Other Credits: Editors: Mariam Ghani, Emily Eberhart; Cinematographers: Adam Hogan; Music: Qasim Naqvi
Mariam Ghani is an artist and filmmaker. Her films, public projects, and installations have been presented worldwide, notably in Times Square and LaGuardia Airport; the Guggenheim, MoMA, Smithsonian, and Metropolitan Museums; Documenta 13 and the Liverpool, Lahore, Yinchuan, and Sharjah Biennials; and the Rotterdam, CPH:DOX, SFFILM, DOC NYC, and Ann Arbor film festivals, among others. Ghani’s first feature, the critically acclaimed documentary WHAT WE LEFT UNFINISHED, premiered at the 2019 Berlinale, is distributed by Dekanalog, Arsenal, and Good Docs, and had its streaming premiere on the Criterion Channel. Ghani teaches film/video at Bennington College.