Audio description

Flare

Germany, 27 minutes, 2023, experimental documentary

Director: Kit Blamire

Close-up. Warm color scheme. A person with dark hair and a nose piercing shaves their temple with a trimmer in a brightly lit room.

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Flare is a personal and poetic experimental documentary film. Flare explores landscapes of autoimmunity and searching for autonomy in the face of the medical system.

Content warning: Rapidly flashing images, shaky camera movement, discussion of medical gaslighting and trauma

Film screening dates: 23.11.2025 — 07.12.2025

Medium close-up, portrait. A person with medium-length, dark hair, wearing a gray T-shirt with several white stripes, sits in a chair surrounded by trees. They wear glasses with thin frames and an earring in the left ear. They hold a daisy, look at the camera, and smile warmly.

Kit Blamire

Kit Blamire is an anarcho-sicko filmmaker and artist living in Berlin. Their work explores disability as anti-capitalism, sickness as a portal to solidarity, and documenting pandemic grief.

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