Mosquitoes have turn into a part of a double-edged “war on disease” narrative
Mariam Ghani/Indexical Movies
Dis-Ease
Mariam Ghani
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There aren’t many laugh-out-loud moments in Mariam Ghani’s documentary about our struggle on germs. However the sight of two British colonial hunters in former Ceylon bringing down a huge papier mâché mosquito is a spotlight.
Ghani intercuts such public info movies (a wealthy supply of inadvertent comedy) with monster motion pictures, documentaries, thrillers, newsreels and histology lab footage to inform the story of an abiding medical metaphor: the physique as citadel, beset by germs.
Dis-Ease, which started life as an…
