Patience (After Sebald)

Richmond Hill

A skilled meander - perambulation perhaps more accurate - around Sebald’s love of East Anglia, as recorded in The Rings of Saturn. Although no travelogue this, in source or by execution, just a simpatico appreciation of the inspiration’s tone, style and intent. A psycho-geographic medley of cartography, peregrination and melancholic biography. Add in some classification and indexing and a blissful 90-minutes it is.

Stefan Drees

A great and aesthetically convincing approach to one of Seebald's most important books: a slow pacing film with excellent photography.

OFF_FRAME

A fascinating look into place and space as prescribed by German author W.G Sebald. The structure of his writing draws parallels with the documentary work of Chris Marker. Seemingly unrelated vignettes, facts and observations come together to form a portrait of humanity that seems impossible to have arrived at in any normal linear manner. 4 stars

Paulo Fehlauer

A beautifully crafted film, contemporary, sensitive and even informative, although you have to be familiar with Sebald's work in order to get into it.

francisca bacon

Two years ago Karthik warmly rec'ed Patience as "A new genre: not a road movie but a walking movie. A peregrination film!" I got so late to it bc of the unhurried, pensive perambulation it took in my direction, in its Pythagorean quest to spot along the way intuitive proportions between sounds, sights, orbital resonance of orbicular routes - that musica universalis whose unique measure note is withheld in the puzzle.

Matthew_Lucas

Poetic (and aptly named) documentary retraces the steps of W.G. Sebald's book, "The Rings of Saturn," evoking his meandering style in its appreciation of the landscapes and people of rural Europe. Beautifully shot in the grainy black and white style of Sebald's favored photographs, the film is an impressionist appreciation that eschews conventional film structure in lieu of feelings and textures.

Jason

PATIENCE (AFTER SEBALD) is a tremendously powerful and consistently inspiring hybrid-type documentary-cum-essay-film. I decided to reread Sebald's THE RINGS OF SATURN is preparation for watching it so can count myself ideally primed. Much talk here of melancholy and history's horrors. I see Sebald--very much in the face of these things, w/ which he certainly wrestled--as nonetheless a writer of wonder and gratitude.

Curtis Steele

What a wonderful film! I’ve been intrigued by Sebald’s writing and was surprised and delighted with the depths revealed by this film. Congratulations on selecting and showing it! I suggest you consider “Antwerp Central” for future showing.