Patience (After Sebald)

United Kingdom 2010, 90 mins
Director: Grant Gee

Synopsis

Grant Gee (JOY DIVISION, MEETING PEOPLE IS EASY) makes a multilayered film essay on the work and influence of hugely acclaimed writer W. G. Sebald (1944 – 2001) via a long walk around the East Anglian coast tracking his most famous book, The Rings of Saturn.

German-born W. G. Sebald has become one of the most influential writers of the last 50 years; he is also one of the most distinctive. The Rings of Saturn is a book about memory, history and walking, but it is also extraordinarily digressive and hard to pin down. His work has also fascinated many contemporary artists, not least for his use of photographs within the text.