Broadcast

Each year I read ‘Rings of Saturn’ — W.G Sebald’s melancholy masterpiece inspired on a walk (or pilgrimage) he took around his adopted East Anglia in the Summer in 1992. I’m in thrall with Sebald’s prose — the literary games and puzzles, the meandering vignettes, droll observations and manipulation of narrative and truth so to learn that Grant Gee has used Rings of Saturn as the subject of his film essay, Patience, is fantastic news. The difficulty is tracking down showings as it doesn’t appear to have a wide release.

A screenshot from Patience.