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. (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
