Dis-Ease

Synopsis

DIS-EASE is a feature-length documentary 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. (Yes, this is a film that covers both antibiotic resistance and the persistence of zombie apocalypse films.) 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 in a world perpetually on the brink of collapse.

Cast

Crew

Crew

• Adam Hogan Cinematography

Directing

• Mariam Ghani Director

Editing

• Mariam Ghani Editor
• Emily Eberhart Editor
• Penny Lane Consulting Editor

Production

• Mariam Ghani Producer
• Day Al-Mohamed Consulting Producer
• Wendy Ettinger Consulting Producer
• Alysa Nahmias Executive Producer

Sound

• Qasim Naqvi Music

Writing

• Emily Eberhart Writer
• Mariam Ghani Writer