Under Our Skin exposes the hidden story of Lyme disease. It looks not only at the science and politics of the disease but also at the personal stories of those who have been affected, from doctors who risk their medical licenses to patients who once led active lives but now can barely walk. While exposing a broken health care and medical research system, the film also gives voice to those who believe that instead of a crisis, Lyme is simply a "disease du jour," over diagnosed and contributing to another crisis: the looming resistance of microbes and ineffectuality of antibiotics. Under Our Skin was produced and directed by Andy Abrahams Wilson and won Best Documentary Award at the Camden International Film Festival. Part of the Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness, and the Creative Imagination.
www.underourskin.com/
Andy Abrahams Wilson, Producer/Director/Cinematographer, studied journalism and anthropology at Northwestern University and received an MA from USC in visual anthropology and film. Heis an Emmy-nominated producer and director of creative nonfiction films.
View the complete schedule of symposium events:
Things Fall Apart: Finding Beauty in a Broken World
Cosponsored By:- Bioethics Program
- Center for Excellence in the Arts & Humanities
- College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
- Creative Writers’ Milieu
- Ecology, Evolution & Organismal Biology
- English
- Environmental Studies
- Geological & Atmospheric Sciences
- Humanities Iowa
- LAS Miller Lecture Fund
- MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment
- Wallace Chair for Sustainable Agriculture
- Committee on Lectures (funded by GSB)
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