FLARE has been a process of making sense of my experience of chronic illness. I felt urged to create a narrative not based on the interpretation of my condition by the medical institution, or by someone else not living it, but as told by myself. Due to the limitations of my health condition, I had to adapt the process of filming to whatever was possible and at reach. With this film, I wish to give a voice to the experience of chronic illness, to the power that comes from being slow, to rhythms and the secrets of the sick, resisting victim narratives. FLARE is a film made in alignment with the tides of my illness and capacities, and is testament to the healing strength of joy, community, and creativity. (Kate Blamire)