Layering voices and images into glowing “rings,” Grant Gee’s Patience (After Sebald) casts light on the German writer W.G. Sebald’s uncategorizable novel, The Rings of Saturn (“fiction/travel/memoir” was the best the publishers could do). Standing witness for the book’s narrator, Gee relies on static long takes—virtually unpeopled—of war ruins, crossroads, and train terminals. Sebald’s words are “irradiated by melancholy,” yet soothing in their integrity, reaping the alien from the specific. In voiceover, his allies and admirers puzzle out the intensity of their affection for the artistry and courage of the author, who died in 2001. Julien Poirier
Photographed by Gee. With Jonathan Pryce, Tacita Dean, Rick Moody. (90 mins)
55th San Francisco International Film Festival @ BAM/PFA
BAM/PFA is honored to once again be the exclusive East Bay venue for the San Francisco International Film Festival. Join us for forty-two films—features, shorts, documentaries, experimental films—from over thirty countries. We expect additional filmmakers and other special guests in person: go to bampfa.berkeley.edu for the latest updates.
Special Pricing
BAM/PFA members, San Francisco Film Society members, UC Berkeley students: $11
General admission: $13
Non-UC Berkeley students, seniors, and disabled persons: $12
Please note that our second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Tickets are nonrefundable, and may not be exchanged. CineVouchers may not be redeemed in person at the PFA Theater.
