W.G. Sebald Documentary

The ending passage made me burst into tears.

one of the best films I have seen, it's so tied to the idea of a walk and the thoughts one experiences... beautifully made and carefully crafted, the music is stunning.... I'm so glad this film exists....

My goodness thank you for putting this up!
I have purchased and lost the digital version 2x... this is one of the finest pieces of art ...ever.

it's very encouraging to see artists like sebald receive enough attention to have a movie made about them. he was a genius and this film does him justice. the caretaker is kind of a genius too, the eerie beauty of his music really fits the vibe.

Kirby brought me here.

What a refreshing change from Justin Timberlake....

Came because of the Caretaker.

John Rogers linked this.

Shattered fragments of the past. Exactly how I feel about Lowestoft, after leaving at 16, but returning year after year, to reawaken childhood memories..

Watched twice and will watch again. The same as reading Sebald who demands multiple readings. All of his works are equally engaging. A terrific documentary and profoundly moving with a haunting soundtrack. Marvellous. Thank you for posting this.

Just finished Rings of Saturn today. This was the perfect coda.

was there a hidden hand behind Sebald? was he assassinated? [because of intel connections, whether real or imagined]?

totally boring

I have the soundtrack album

This is so, so great. I love Sebald's writings, and this is just the most intriguing, beautiful, incisive, and multi-faceted tribute imaginable. Thank you SO MUCH for sharing this.

Where can I access Rings map project?

Thank you very much indeed, Malcolm Kelly. A delight.

A wonderful insight into an amazing man.

I know was here probably the wrong intention but now I like sebald not because the caretaker/Leyland kirby made the sound track just that sebald is a great mqn

A reflected life is enough.

Thank you for uploading this incredible documentary. Love the soundtrack too

Pirated

Kirby made this so much better.

Thank you so much, Michael Kelly, for sharing this beautiful, enligtening and inspiring film

caretaker moment

The smoke at the end has Sebald's sad eyes... It is so distinct. I do not normally believe in ghosts (in the typical sense), but I definitely believe Sebald's spirit was there that day.

Marvelous. I think the start of Franz Schuberts' 'Der Lindenbaum' from his cycle Winterreise (1827) fits perfectly, great choice of music.

Thank you!

Sebald is a writer I’ve been incredibly interested in recently. I am a huge fan of plenty of authors that employ the continuous paragraph as well as other themes and literary elements that he employs. Recently purchased Austerlitz, Rings, and The Emigrants because they all were incredibly cheap online. I’m extremely excited to read them as well as Vertigo.

You better title as Patience After Sebald. This is a rare and valued documentary I've been looking for
Thanks

Came for the caretaker stayed for sebald

Who's here for The Caretaker?

What a beautiful piece of art this is. Magic poetry...

The choice of, and performance by, Jonathan Pryce as Sebald's narrator's voice were magnificent. Would that there were an audio version of the entire text read by Mr. Pryce. Or perhaps a staged reading performance: Mr. Pryce seated, speaking, with Grant Gee's glorious out of focus, gray-scale imagery, floating above and behind.

This is really good, can anyone recommend other documentaries that are like it?

thank you for uploaded it❣

Sure, Letland Kirby brought me here, but Sebald kept me here. Now I'm reading his haunting novels.

I thought for a moment someone other than Gee had made a Sebald documentary. I guess this isn't titled 'Patience, After Sebald' because the uploader wants to avoid a copyright ban for as long as possible. (That Creative Commons licence is a highly dubious.) It's a bit sneaky and underhand, all the same, especially as it's available on a number of streaming services from which Gee would presumably get royalties.

Thanks for sharing. I just finished the book two days ago and need to somehow lead a discussion about it tonight in my book club. What a journey.

Thank you for sharing this

I remember picking up the Rings of Saturn for the first time and thinking ok what's this all about, some sort of arty travelogue. But after a few minutes of reading I felt an unfamiliar sense of apprehension. At some points with no particular trigger in the text it feels like the whole world comes crashing down without warning and for no reason.

I hate this documentary. Y'all a bunch of wankers and don't have the first idea of Sebald! Don' t bring that Stalker cobblers! Sebald is closer to Kafka and Bernhard. It's like the whole project comes alive again, in death. Not Tarkovsky FFS! And it is much more political than you are saying. He can say very precisely why the melancholy is there! Precisely. Also, no one ever built an extermination camp in the middle of a city. They make them in remote, 'pure', natural forest. Or maybe on a remote fen, hidden in the reeds. You want to think about Blackwood's 'The Willows' or even Lovecraft's 'At the Mountains of Madness'. And Kafka, Kafka, Kafka!

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