Movies: Mariam Ghani

About five never completed films made between 1978 and 1992 before the backdrop of the various communist regimes that came to power in Afghanistan. Scenes from these films, some of which later reused in other works, are edited together with current f...

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 imag...

According to the official history of Afghanistan, ruthless destruction has always prevailed over art and creation; but there is another tale to be told, the forgotten account of a diverse and progressive country, seen through the lens of innovative f...

A kaleidoscopic trip through the intertwined histories of pandemics, riots, and colonial violence. An archive constantly haunted by its possible collapse. Featuring the voices of science journalist Sonia Shah, poet and literary scholar Anjuli Raza Ko...

Adapted from the novel Bid Me To Live by the poet H.D. (written 1933–50, published 1960) and shot in houses occupied by military families on Governors Island, NYC, from the 1770s to the 1960s, To Live is about what happens on the fringes of a war, an...

Adapted from the spiritual journals of the Shaker Village at Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, 1847–1857, a period during which the Pleasant Hill meeting house hosted one of the longest Shaker meetings ever recorded, 19 hours in duration....

Short piece consisting of the spliced together leader of unfinished Afghani films....

It’s a Disaster! literalizes the overlaps between pop-cultural imaginaries of contagion, alien invasion, and climate disasters. Part of a larger body of research, which includes a feature in progress, examining our long metaphorical “war on disease” ...