Dis-Ease
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.
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Directors Spotlight
Mariam Ghani
Director
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.
- Runtime
- 120 minutes
- Country
- United States, United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Director
- Mariam Ghani
- Cast
- Sonia Shah, Priscilla Wald, Hannah Landecker, Keiji Fukuda, Nancy Tomes, Johanna Hedva, Sridhar Venkatapuram, Dora Vargha, Nayan Shah, Patricia J. Williams
- Cinematographer
- Adam Hogan
- Composer
- Qasim Naqvi
- Editor
- Mariam Ghani & Emily Eberhart
- Executive Producer
- Alysa Nahmias
- Music
- Derek McNeill
- Producer
- Mariam Ghani
- Screenwriter
- Mariam Ghani & Emily Eberhart
- Sound Design
- Adam Hogan & Mariam Ghani
- Premiere
- World