Raoul Servais
{{Short description|Belgian filmmaker and artist (1928–2023)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2023}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Raoul Servais
| image = Raoul Servais 003.JPG
| image_size =
| alt = Portrait of Raoul Servais
| caption = Servais in 2014
| birth_name = Raoul Servais
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1928|5|1}}
| birth_place = Ostend, Belgium
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2023|03|17|1928|5|1}}
| death_place = Leffinge, Belgium
| other_names =
| known_for =
| occupation = Filmmaker, painter
}}
Raoul Servais (1 May 1928 – 17 March 2023) was a Belgian filmmaker, animator and comics artist.{{cite book |last=Lenburg |first=Jeff |year=2006 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FVShFCjVzvIC&pg=PA314 |chapter=Servais, Raoul |title=Who's Who in Animated Cartoons: An International Guide to Film & Television's Award-Winning and Legendary Animators |location=New York |publisher=Applause Theatre & Cinema Books |pages=314–316 |isbn=978-1-55783-671-7}} He was born in Ostend, Belgium, and 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).{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/servais_raoul.htm|title = Raoul Servais}}
Servais was best known for the animated film, Harpya, for which he won a Palme d'Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.{{cite web|url=http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/cartoons-considered-for-an-academy-award-1979/|title=Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1979|website=cartoonresearch.com}} Servais received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the World Festival of Animated Film - Animafest Zagreb in 2016.{{cite web |title=Animafest Zagreb 2016. Lifetime Achievement Award |url=http://animafest.hr/en/2016/news/read/26th_world_festival_of_animated_film_animafest_zagreb_to_present_lifetime_achievement_award_to_iconic_belgian_author_raoul_servais}} At the 9th Magritte Awards, he received an Honorary Magritte Award from the Académie André Delvaux.
In total, Servais won about 60 film prizes. Homages with retrospectives were organized in Paris, Madrid, Istanbul, Montreal, New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Rio de Janeiro and St Petersburg.{{Cite web |date=20 March 2023 |title=Raoul Servais overleden, internationaal gelauwerde pionier van de Belgische animatiefilm |url=https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2023/03/20/raoul-servais/ |website=VRT |language=nl}}
Servais died at his home in Leffinge on 17 March 2023, at the age of 94.[https://www.hln.be/film/raoul-servais-94-overleden-internationaal-geprezen-pionier-van-de-animatiefilm-die-onder-meer-gouden-palm-won~a4c16f12/ Raoul Servais (94) overleden, internationaal geprezen pionier van de animatiefilm die onder meer Gouden Palm won]
Filmography
- 1960: Harbour Lights (Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Ghent)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 ..
- 1963: {{ill|The False Note (film|lt=The False Note|fr|La Fausse Note}}
- 1966: {{ill|Chromophobia (1966 film)|lt=Chromophobia|fr|Chromophobia (film, 1966)}}
- 1968: Siren
- 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)[https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/films/harpya HARPYA-Festival de Cannes]
- 1994: Taxandria (Diploma of Merit at the 4th Kecskemét Animation Film Festival[http://www.kaff.hu/1996 4. Kecskeméti Animációs Filmfesztivál 1. Nemzetközi Animációs Játékfilm Fesztivál). Kecskeméti Animáció Film Fesztivál. 1996]
- 1998: {{ill|Nocturnal Butterflies|fr|Papillons de nuit (film, 1997)}}
- 2001: {{ill|Atraksion|fr}}
- 2005: Winter Days (3' sequence)
- 2016: Tank
See also
References
{{reflist}}
Further reading
{{refbegin}}
- {{cite book |last1=Moins |first1=Philippe |last2=Corbet |first2=Maurice |year=2013 |title=Raoul Servais. Voyage en servaisgraphie |series=Les Animés |language=French |location=Montreuil and Annecy |publisher=Éditions de l'Oeil and Communauté de l'Agglomération d'Annecy |isbn=978-2-35137-144-2 }}
- {{cite book |last=Moins |first=Philippe |year=2018 |title=Panoramic: Raoul Servais |location=Gent |publisher=Borgerhoff & Lamberigts |isbn=978-90-8931-838-1 }}
- {{cite book |last=Rosignoli |first=Manuela |year=2006 |chapter=Attraverso lo specchio |trans-chapter=Through the mirror |editor1-last=Bendazzi |editor1-first=Giannalberto |editor2-last=Scrimitore |editor2-first=Raffaella |title=Il cinema d'animazione e la nuova critica |trans-title=Animated cinema and the new criticism |series=Tra spettacolo e drammaturgia |language=it |location=Milan |publisher=CUEM |pages=63–72 |isbn=978-88-6001-077-3 }}
- {{cite book |last1=Swinnen |first1=Johan |last2=Deneulin |first2=Luc |year=2008 |title=Raoul Servais: The Wizard of Ostend: Commitment – Challenge – Recognition |location=Brussels |publisher=ASP |isbn=978-90-5487-480-5 }}
{{refend}}
External links
- {{official|http://www.raoulservais.be }}
- [https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/servais_raoul.htm Lambiek Comiclopedia biography about Raoul Servais.]
- {{IMDb name|0785773}}
{{Authority control (arts)}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Servais, Raoul}}
Category:Belgian film directors
Category:Belgian comics artists
Category:Belgian animated film directors
Category:Belgian animated film producers
Category:International Animated Film Association
Category:Members of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts
Category:Magritte Award winners
{{Belgium-film-director-stub}}
{{animator-stub}}