Dis-Ease (2024)

Documentary

Overview

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

• Priscilla Wald as Self
• Hannah Landecker as Self
• Keiji Fukuda as Self
• Sonia Shah as Self
• Nancy Tomes as Self
• Johanna Hedva as Self
• Sridhar Venkatapuram as Self
• Dora Vargha as Self
• Nayan Shah as Self
• Patricia J. Williams as Self

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