The year properly kicked off with Ted Fendt's incredible gift of two transcripts of Daney's Microfilms radio broadcast (guests: Rivette and Straub). Then followed 12 new translations from various sources.
Some random texts appeared here and elsewhere:
- Jean-Jacques Beineix, Destination Moon… or not!
- City of Pirates
- Pialat’s Dream (Van Gogh)
- Two new Translations on Tennis
- Cinema, Life and Solitude
The "Romania" series:
- Freeze-Images
- The Judges and the Assassin
- Romania, Year Zero
- Nicolae and Elena Bequeath their Bodies to TV
In September, the London ICA hosted a Serge Daney film cycle, accompanied by a special edition of Sabzian. This blogged played its part with a translation of an extract of Pierre Eugène's book on Daney (Pierre was one of the participant to this rare gathering of "Daneyans"– a term coined by Nicholas Elliot).
Few other news. Pierre Eugène mapped Daney's travels. Emmanuel Burdeau mentioned again his project of a book on Serge Daney ("perhaps the most important book that I'll ever write"). As far as we know, Christine Pichini may still be translating the volume 2 of Cinema House, and Nicholas Elliot may still intend to translate Cine journal when the rights are sorted (both for the publisher Semiotext(e)). Let's hope these projects progress or come through in 2026.
Happy new year to you all!
Coincidently, Emmanuel Burdeau just confirmed on a video on Substack (https://emmanuelburdeau.substack.com/p/2026-critique) that he is intending to write (but probably not publish) his book on Daney in 2026.
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