Tracking Patience
January 24, 2012
Grant Gee’s excellent documentary on W.G. Sebald Patience (After Sebald) is starting to appear in cinemas across England. It will have a short run at the ICA in London from January 27 through February 2, with Gee appearing on the 27th. Details here.
If you are near Manchester you have a chance to see Patience and meet Grant Gee on January 29 at Cornerhouse. It’s just a single showing as part of a series put on by the New British Cinema Quarterly. Here is the link for more details. The website includes a very brief video clip that manages to give a bit of the flavor of the film.
The NBCQ series moves on to London where Patience will be shown at Curzon’s Renoir Cinema in Bloomsbury on January 30. Once again, Grant Gee will make an appearance at the showing for Q&A. Details here.
The BBC has also posted a five-minute audio piece about the film. Grant Gee talks for a bit and Andrew Motion reads a poem about Sebald. Listen here.
American audiences will apparently start seeing Patience in theaters starting in late April, distributed by Cinema Guild.
And the film’s soundtrack by The Caretaker has just been released as a vinyl album and a CD. Buy here (and sample three of the tracks).
And eventually, I am told, there will be DVDs of the film for sale.
January 27, 2012 at 1:50 pm
There’s a discussion of the film with Kevin Jackson and Amanda Hopkinson on the Arts and Ideas podcast this week: http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/r3arts
January 29, 2012 at 6:21 am
Thanks for the link to the programme, Andrew, there’s an interesting chunk on Browne in discussion of Sebald’s RoS.
Borges, another modern writer of original imagination also v. influenced by Sir T.B.