Patience (After Sebald) London Film Release Friday 27 January 2012

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.

Grant Gee has twice been Grammy-nominated; for Meeting People Is Easy – about Radiohead – in 2000 and Demon Days – about Gorillaz – in 2006. His documentary Joy Division won the prestigious Grierson Award 2008 for Best Cinema Documentary.

Patience (After Sebald) premiered at Aldeburgh Music, Snape, in January 2011, in a weekend of Sebaldian activity including an exclusive new work performed live by Patti Smith. Following premieres at New York and Vancouver Film Festivals last Autumn and a premiere at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in early February 2012, it will also be distributed in the United States in late April 2012 by Cinema Guild.

Patience (After Sebald) was commissioned by artevents for The Re-Enchantment, a national arts project investigating our relationships to place.