Patience (After Sebald)
Summary
Patience (After Sebald) is a multi-layered film essay on landscape, art, history, life and loss by the acclaimed documentary film-maker Grant Gee. It is an exploration of the work and influence of German writer WG Sebald (1944 – 2001), told via a long walk through coastal East Anglia tracking his most famous book The Rings of Saturn. The book mixed history, travelogue, memoir, meditation, fiction and images to explore the personal, public and often overlooked histories of Suffolk.
Sebald has profoundly influenced some of today's leading writers, thinkers and artists. Some of these – interviewed for the film include Adam Philips, Robert Macfarlane, Rick Moody and Tacita Dean.
Supported by
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation, UK
The National Lottery through Arts Council England
UK Film Council, UK
Screen East, UK
Screen South, UK
Description of project
I was creative consultant for this project developing the intellectual framework for the overall programme within which it was commissioned, The Re-Enchantment, which addresses the relationships between art and place and place-making. To produce the commissioning framework I undertook research into the history of art and place-making - in terms of art and cultural regeneration, public sculpture, site-specificity and performance, art and ruralism, contemporary poetics and place – and its current representation within cultural and urban strategy. The framework was ‘delphic’ and applied in a variety of contexts such as creating national partnerships, for fundraising purposes, as a curatorial strategy for the commissioning of artworks and to inform a series of events and seminars and the publication Towards Re-Enchantment – Place and its Meanings-
Type of work
Creative consultant, film
Published in
Patience (After Sebald) by Grant Gee premiered at Aldeburgh Music, Snape, UK
Other description
Premieres at New York and Vancouver Film Festivals in October 2011.
Distributed in the United States in April 2012 by Cinema Guild.
Patience is being released in the UK by leading independent distributors Soda Pictures on Friday 27th January, at the ICA cinema, London; Curzon Renoir, Curzon Wimbledon and around the country, as part of their important initiative, The New British Cinema Quarterly.
Patience will also be premiering in Europe at the important Rotterdam International Film Festival in early February 2012, with other international screenings imminent.
Exhibition: Patience (After Sebald)
Artist: Grant Gee
Consultant curator: Jason Bowman
Date
2011-01Creator
Bowman, Jason E.
Keywords
Film
WG Sebald
Landscape
Documentary
Fine Art
Patti Smith
Place-making
Curatorship
Ruralism
Site-Specificity
Cultural Regeneration
Publication type
artistic work
Language
eng