Thursday, March 13, 2014

Point of view: three new translations

Three new English translations of Serge Daney are being published today in a new book, Der Standpunkt der Aufnahme - Point of View: Perspectives of political film and video work. The texts are from Daney's first book, La rampe (first published in 1983 as a collection of articles written mostly in the 1970s for Cahiers du cinéma), focusing on the place of the filmmaker and the concept of point of view
There's a book launch event this evening at the Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art in Berlin. A big thank you to Tobias Hering, the editor of the book, for sharing this with us.

A tomb for the eye (Straubian Pedagogy)

First published in Cahiers du cinéma, issue 259-259, July-August 1975. Reprinted in La rampe, Cahiers du cinema/Gallimard, 1983. Translated by Stoffel Debuysere and John Barrett. Stoffel's initial translation is available here

On paper

First published in Cahiers du cinéma, issue 265, March-April 1976. Reprinted in La rampe, Cahiers du cinema/Gallimard, 1983. Translated by John Barrett. This is a new translation.

The restaging

First published in Cahiers du cinéma, issue 268-269, July-August 1976. Reprinted in La rampe, Cahiers du cinema/Gallimard, 1983. Translated by John Barrett. Another translation is available here.

For more info and context on La rampe, see the series of posts from last summer.

Sunday, March 02, 2014

Andre Bazin

The winter issue of Double Exposure - Columbia University's undergraduate film journal - features two translations of Serge Daney. And they're available online.

Paris, Texas

Daney's review of Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas. The text was first published in Libération on September 20th, 1984 and was reprinted in Daney's second book, Ciné-Journal, in 1986. 
Double exposure, issue 6, Fall/Winter 2013-14, translated by Paul Chouchana. Another translation of the same text was published a year ago on this blog.

Andre Bazin

Daney's review of Andrew Dudley's biography of André Bazin, which was published in French in 1983. The review was first published in Libération on August 19th, 1983 and was reprinted in Daney's second book, Ciné-Journal, in 1986. 
Double exposure, issue 6, Fall/Winter 2013-14, translated by Paul Chouchana.