Serge Daney in 2021

Time for the annual wrap-up. 2021 saw 30 (new or revived) translations of Serge Daney:

• Three texts on Nagisa Oshima's Max, My Love
• Daney's report from the set of Youssef Chahine's Adieu Bonaparte (with Andy Rector's help after Samir Ardjoum spotted Daney among the extras in a scene of the film)
• A review of Lam Le's Dust of Empire 
• Daney's review of Coppola's Rumblefish.
• A review of yet another cut of Visconti's Ludwig
• Daney's full coverage of Cannes 1984 (20 texts in collaboration with Srikanth Srinivasan)
• May 10: Cannes 1984: Introduction
• May 11: Cannes-speak
• May 12: Fort Saganne: Three Hours Without Drinking
• May 14: Bergman, After the Competition / English TV Goes to the Movies / Valérie Kaprisky, Eulogy of the Nude
• May 15: Herzog with the Abos / Auteurs: High and Low
• May 16: Angolechronopoulos
• May 17: Leos Carax, First Time / The Karma of Images
• May 18: Dial G for Georgia / Counting Your Chickens
• May 19: Vertigo / Skolimowski at any Cost
• May 21: Twice Upon a Time in America
• May 22: The Quilombo Utopia
• May 23: Pitching and Rolling Aboard The Pirate / Muslims and Hindus in Colour
• May 24: The Winners
• A revived translation that had disappeared from the web: For a Cine-Demography
• A new text: A Critical Time for Criticism. 
• A new translation to end the year: In Praise of Emma Thiers (thanks to Jack Seibert)

2022 will mark 30 years since Daney's death and it's possible that we see a bit more happening in the Daney sphere.  

Two books seem on track to be released:

• The most eagerly awaited is The Cinema House and The World, a translation of the first volume of Daney's complete writings covering the Cahiers period. Over 200 texts due for release around May. Discover more here.
• Serge Daney and Queer Cinephilia, the output of a university research program which covers wider topics than Daney but will likely have some interesting texts on Daney. (Disclosure: I was invited at the first set of conferences to talk about translations, but no papers from me in the book).

There could be more: 

• Emmanuel Burdeau is continuing to write his biography of Daney. To be published next year?
• And I am aware of one other book that could hit the shelves in the future. 

And this blog will continue to look at new translations, some already in-progress. 

In the meantime, it's pretty much the same end of year message as last year. You know what to do: vaccines, masks, look after others as well as yourselves, and stay safe.