About the film

The title “Patience (After Sebald)” will remind readers of the late W. G. Sebald - whose unclassifiable 1995 book “The Rings of Saturn” (translated into English in 1998 by Michael Hulse) is the ostensible subject of Grant Gee’s new documentary - of the author’s book-length poem “After Nature”. And true to this association, the movie treats Sebald with great solemnity, as a sort of Stonehenge-like ruin in and of himself, posthumously trying to make him something like a novelty subsection of the great themes of his own antiquarian German poetry and prose - Civilization, History, Memory.

Wybrane nagrody i festiwale /Selected festivals and awards: 2011 - FF Nowy Jork/ New York FF; 2011 - CPH:DOX Kopenhaga/ CPH:DOX Copenhagen.