Synopsis:
‘The grey legions invade the world of colour to establish their colourless dominance. Resistance appears in the shape of a scarlet jester, who restores the reign of colour using his chromatic trickery.’
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Raoul Servais – Chromophobia (1966)
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Raoul Servais – De valse noot AKA La fausse note AKA The False Note (1963)
1961-1970AnimationBelgiumRaoul ServaisShort FilmSynopsis:
‘A little beggar tries in vain to get an alms in a big city where everything is organised, efficient and lucrative. His barrel organ’s tune always ends with an impressive false note, upsetting the townspeople. Eventually the little beggar will receive a dream fulfilling gift.’
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Raoul Servais – Goldframe (1970)
1961-1970AnimationBelgiumRaoul ServaisShort FilmSynopsis:
‘Jason Goldframe, a film producer, is always the best and the first! It’s his ambition to be the very first to achieve the inconceivable: making a 270mm film. Obsessed as he is, he even wants to be faster than his shadow. One evening he succeeds.’
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Raoul Servais – Sirène AKA Sirene (1968)
1951-1960AnimationBelgiumRaoul ServaisShort FilmSynopsis:
‘Monsterlike cranes reign over an inhospitable harbour as prehistorical reptiles. The only human being they accept is a lonesome fisherman. He is to witness a strange encounter between a ship’s mate and a mermaid. Imagination or reality?’
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Raoul Servais – Operation X-70 (1971)
1971-1980AnimationBelgiumRaoul ServaisShort FilmSynopsis:
‘A mighty state is experimenting with a new nerve gas that doesn’t kill, but numbs people. By accident some of the gas is dropped on a peaceful country ‘Nebelux’, where suddenly strange mutations appear.’
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Raoul Servais – Pegasus (1974)
1971-1980AnimationBelgiumRaoul ServaisShort FilmSynopsis:
‘An old blacksmith is now too old to adapt to the changing technological society. Frustrated, he creates his own universe in which he eventually also becomes obsolete.’
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Raoul Servais – To Speak or Not to Speak (1972)
1971-1980AnimationBelgiumRaoul ServaisShort FilmSynopsis:
‘When the average man in the street is asked what he thinks of the political situation, there’s not much to be learned. Only a drop-out is willing to give a truly personal opinion.’
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Raoul Servais – Taxandria [+Extras] (1994)
1991-2000ArthouseBelgiumFantasyRaoul ServaisIn Taxandria, a totalitarian regime has forbidden time: time watched have been confiscated, photo cameras are illegal as they freeze a point in time. A typical Servais theme: a power is oppressed by a constraint that denies what is best in the individual, and therefor has to be twisted in various ways, to establish an entirely artificial world, that has rules that may question some of the rules of our world at this side of the mirror. The digital era has begun. “Servaisgraphy” threatens to become obsolete. It was finally only to be used for the fabric of the backgrounds and no longer for the encrustation.Read More »