Important medical discoveries have implications for all of humanity, far beyond the time and context in which they were made. Around the world, scientists and healthcare professionals are building on the foundations laid by Nobel Prize laureates. In the exhibition Fighting Disease – Three Stories From the Fields of Medicine, we meet a scientist, a doctor and a nurse who continue the journey from scientific discovery to better health for the world’s population. They work to prevent disease, vaccinate and search for new antibiotics.
The exhibition is based on three documentary films set in Pakistan, Chile and the United States. The films are Shadows in Sunlight directed by Ruhi Hamid, Bloodlines, Mississippi directed by Crystal Kayiza and Life Invisible by directors Bettina Perut and Iván Osnovikoff.
The evening begins with an opening speech by Museum Director Erika Lanner. On stage, we will also hear producer Simon Doyle talk about the work behind the films. This will be followed by a conversation between the Nobel Prize Museum’s Carin Klaesson and Thomas Perlmann from the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet about the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
The evening will also include guided tours of the museum on the theme of medicine and an exclusive full-length showing of the three documentary films. These activities cannot be booked in advance and are available on a drop-in basis; first come, first served.
Programme
18:00 Opening speech by Museum Director Lanner. The films’ producer Simon Doyle talks about the production process followed by a conversation between Carin Klaesson and Thomas Perlmann.
18:30-19:30 Private movie screening
18:45 Guided tour with medicine theme
19:30-20:30 Private movie screening
19:45 Guided tour with medicine theme
Take the opportunity to explore the rest of the museum and the museum shop. Both are open until 21.00. The museum’s bistro is closed for renovation due to water damage.
The directors
Brooklyn-based filmmaker Crystal Kayiza is the dirctor of Bloodlines, Mississippi. She was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film,” she is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, Film Independent Amplifier Fellowship and Sundance Ignite Fellowship. Her most recent film, Rest Stop, was awarded the Jury Prize for Best US Short Film at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Rest Stop was the winner of the 2020 Tribeca Through Her Lens grant and premiered at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. Crystal is also the recipient of the 2022 Documentary Development Initiative grant in partnership with HBO Documentary Films and The Gotham.
Director of Shadows in Sunlight Ruhi Hamid, is a British filmmaker, born in Tanzania, who has made award-winning documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4, Al Jazeera International and other UK, US and European broadcasters. Her films have cover social and political issues about gender equality, religion, poverty, health, and human rights. Ruhi Hamid began her filmmaking career with the BBC’s Community Programme Unit on the BAFTA award-winning series Video Diaries and Video Nation. Specialising as a solo director, often at significant personal risk, she makes well regarded films including Women and Islam (2004), The Rockstar and the Mullahs (2003), and Women, Weddings, War and Me (featuring Nelufar Hedayat, 2010).
The film Life Invisible was directed by Bettina Perut and Iván Osnovikoff. Bettina Perut is a Chilean journalist, film director, producer and screenwriter who has collaborated with director Iván Osnovikoff since 1997. Perut and Osnovikoff have directed and produced documentaries such as Un Hombre Aparte, Welcome to New York, Noticias and Surire. Perut and Osnovikoff’s documentaries often question boundaries and raise questions. This is the case in EL ASTUTO MONO PINOCHET CONTRA LA MONEDA DE LOS CERDOS (2004), where groups of schoolchildren represent the military coup through improvised acting, combining play and parody and telling the story of a conflicted present that lives in their bodies. These issues were further emphasized in LA MUERTE DE PINOCHET (2011), which revolves around the day of Augusto Pinochet’s death.
Tickets
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