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Dis-Ease (2024)

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.

  • Documentary

Top billed cast

  • Photo of Priscilla WaldPriscilla WaldSelf
  • Photo of Hannah LandeckerHannah LandeckerSelf
  • Photo of Keiji FukudaKeiji FukudaSelf
  • Photo of Sonia ShahSonia ShahSelf
  • Photo of Nancy TomesNancy TomesSelf
  • Photo of Johanna HedvaJohanna HedvaSelf
  • Photo of Sridhar VenkatapuramSridhar VenkatapuramSelf
  • Photo of Dora VarghaDora VarghaSelf
  • Photo of Nayan ShahNayan ShahSelf
  • Photo of Patricia J. WilliamsPatricia J. WilliamsSelf

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