Artpress compiles Serge Daney interviews in new book

A new publication from artpress collects interviews with French film critic and theorist Serge Daney, who died in 1992. Born in 1944, the year of Rossellini's Rome, Open City, Daney closely linked his life to cinema and 20th-century history. He rose to prominence at Cahiers du cinéma and later Libération, establishing himself as a critic and theorist of all images, including television, which he subjected to political analysis. The interviews, conducted by Jacques Henric, Catherine Millet, Dominique Païni, and Guy Scarpetta, explore the relationships between cinema and history, cinema and television, and images and reality. The final interview took place weeks before his death, shortly after he founded the journal Trafic, where he saw writing as a natural extension of cinephilic speech. A preface by Pierre Eugène is included. Daney famously stated, 'Cinema gave us the world. We saw it born in Hawks, in Hitchcock, as art. Now it exists sociologically and horrifies us.'