Patience (After Sebald)
Retracing the steps of the journey taken in W.G. Sebald’s book The Rings of Saturn, Grant Gee’s documentary essay is a richly rewarding literary pilgrimage, a worthy tribute to an unclassifiable masterpiece.
A multi-layered, highly original essay on landscape, history, art, life and loss, Patience (After Sebald) offers a unique exploration of the work of W.G. Sebald. Structured as a journey through the coastal Suffolk landscapes described in Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn—one of the most highly praised and hotly discussed literary works of recent years—the film avoids typical art documentary strategies, weaving commentaries by artists and critics such as Robert McFarlane, Rick Moody, Adam Phillips, Tacita Dean and Chris Petit into a rich aural tapestry that offers a revealing counterpoint to images of places and things described in the book. The result is not an adaptation or explanation of Sebald, but a kind of aesthetic response to his work.
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