DIS-EASE

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.

2024 / 120 min

Directed & Produced by Mariam Ghani

Executive Produced by Alysa Nahmias

Consulting Producers: Day Al-Mohamed, Wendy Ettinger

Assistant Producer: Lou Wang-Holborn

Archival Producer: Peter Nauffts

Supervising DP: Adam Hogan

Consulting DP: Nausheen Dadabhoy

Supported by: Wellcome Trust, Field of Vision, Educational Foundation of America, the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, and the New York State Council on the Arts

An Indexical Films production, in association with AJNA Films and Field of Vision