Raul Serve ( Dutch: Raoul Servais ; born May 1, 1928, Ostend ) - Belgian film director, animator , artist, teacher.
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 Raul Serve at his exhibition in Ostend, 2008 | |
| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | |
| Citizenship |  Belgium |
| Profession | filmmaker |
| Career | 1959 - n. at. |
| Direction | Animation |
| Awards | Golden palm branch of Cannes IFF |
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Biography
He graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent (1950), in 1963 he established an animation film department in it. Since 1957 he has been working in animated films , to which his father taught him. Self-taught animator, made his first camera for filming from a cigar box. He made his first films with his own money, until the Ministry of Education asked him to make a film, giving the director complete freedom. So there was "Chromophobia". He was influenced by Belgian surrealism : Magritte , with whom he had been friends for many years, and Delvo .
In 1985-1994 he headed the International Association of Animated Films (ASIFA [5] ).
Selected Filmography
- 1960 - Port Lights
- 1963 - Fake Note (Main Prize at the 4th National Animation Film Festival in Antwerp )
- 1965 - Chromophobia ( Venice IFF Prize)
- 1968 - Siren
- 1970 - To say or not to say
- 1971 - Operation X-70 (special award of the jury of the Cannes IFF )
- 1973 - Pegasus
- 1979 - Harpy ( Golden palm branch of the Cannes IFF , the film is included by critics among the 20 best animated films in the history of world cinema, 1980)
- 1994 - Taxandria (full-length, script by A. Rob-Grieux )
- 1998 - Night butterflies (Main Prize and FIPRESCI Prize at the Annecy International Film Festival )
- 2001 - Attraction (two awards at the Fantasporto festival )
- 2003 - Winter days (collective project on Basho’s poems with the participation of Y. Norshtein and others)
Recognition
Nominee and winner of 20 national and international prizes. An indispensable member of the Royal Academy of Belgium (1979).
Literature
- Minten C. ao Raoul Servais. Brugge: Provincie West-Vlaanderen, 2002
- Swinnen J. Raoul Servais. The wizard of Ostend. Commitment - Challenge - Recognition. Brussel: VUB-Press 2008
Notes
- ↑ Internet Movie Database - 1990.
- ↑ SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ Lambiek Comiclopedia - Lambiek , 1999.
- ↑ Servais, Raoul // Who's Who in Animated Cartoon : An International Guide to Film and Television's Award-Winning and Legendary Animators - NY : Hal Leonard Corporation , 2006. - ISBN 978-1-55783-671-7
- ↑ ASIFA
Links
- Website of the Raul Serve Foundation (nid.) , (Fr.) , (Eng.)
- On the website of the Museum of Animation in Annecy (fr.)
- Arte website (inaccessible link) (fr.)
- Interview