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Rowena Harris: Long-Covid and the Culture of Disbelief

Rowena Harris’s Long-Covid and the Culture of Disbelief is a single-channel film that explores the socio-cultural context of Long-Covid and ME (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis). The film, made over several years, draws on the artist’s personal experience of these related health conditions. It emerged as a film about ME before the pandemic, and then responsively evolved as Long-Covid emerged and took hold in the world and the artist’s body.

The film uses captions without an audible voice, to guide us through an examination of the history of ME. Taking us back to the 1950s when the disease was first studied and named, and then into the 1970s when it was reclassified as a psychological condition and linked to a misogynist idea of ‘hysteria’. The film asks us to consider this culture of disbelief in relation to Long-Covid.

Harris uses a combination of found footage, CGI, and a soundtrack of rhythmic beeps and clicks, reminiscent of MRI machines and medical equipment to engage in an idea of sickness that slips between the personal, societal and of the film media itself. The film narrates back to us, “a film can look like this and still be sick.”
event dateFri 4 Apr to Sunday 11 May
venue addressThe Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool, Merseyside L1 3BX
event timesFri 4 Apr - Sun 11 May
Free entry
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