Raoul Servais | |
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) Portrait of Raoul Servais (2014) | |
| Born | Raoul Servais 1 May 1928 |
| Nationality | Belgium |
| Occupation | filmmaker, painter |
Raoul Servais (born 1 May 1928) is a Belgian filmmaker, animator, and comics artist. He is a fundamental figure of the Belgian animation scene, as well as the founder of the animation faculty of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK). [1] He was born in Ostend. Servais was awarded with Lifetime Achievement Award at the World Festival of Animated Film - Animafest Zagreb in 2016.[2] He is best known for the 1979 animated film Harpya.[3] At the 9th Magritte Awards, Servais received an Honorary Magritte Award from the Académie André Delvaux.
Filmography
- 1960: Harbour Lights (Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Ghent)[4][5]
- 1963: The False Note
- 1965: Chromophobia
- 1968: Sirene
- 1969: Goldframe
- 1970: To speak or not to speak
- 1971: Operation X-70
- 1973: Pegasus
- 1976: Halewyn's song
- 1979: Harpya (Palme d'Or for Best Short Film at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival)[6]
- 1994: Taxandria (Diploma of Merit at the 4th Kecskemét Animation Film Festival[7]
- 1998: Nocturnal butterflies
- 2001: Atraksion
- 2005: Winter Days (3' sequence)
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Raoul Servais, portrait by the Belgian artist Willy Bosschem.
See also
References
- ^ [1]
- ^ "Animafest Zagreb 2016. Lifetime Achievement Award".
- ^ "Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1979 -". cartoonresearch.com.
- ^ Who's who in Animated Cartoons 155783671X Jeff Lenburg - 2006 "at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, with plans to complete a film he had begun three years earlier, Harbour Lights (1960)."
- ^ Memo from Belgium - Issues 181-184; Issue 1979 - Page 9 1979 -Industrial and commercial cartoons appeared on the silver screen, and young artists emerged to open up new horizons in form as well as content. Not for nothing the Servais film "Harbour Lights" came as a revelation to the 1960 National Film ..
- ^ HARPYA-Festival de Cannes
- ^ 4. Kecskeméti Animációs Filmfesztivál 1. Nemzetközi Animációs Játékfilm Fesztivál). Kecskeméti Animáció Film Fesztivál. 1996
External links
- Official website
- Raoul Servais at IMDb