Recent Belgian Animation

Born in Ostend in 1928, Raoul Servais completed his first animated film in 1960. Since then, he has made ten short length cartoons which have obtained some forty national and international awards. Servais is a professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent.

Goldframe
• Directed, Written and Produced by Raoul Servais. Music by Calyer Duncan and Paul Van Gysegem. (1969, 5 mins)

Pegasus
• Directed, Written and Produced by Raoul Servais. Music by Lucien Goethals. (1973, 8-1/2 mins, color)

Harpya
• Directed and Written by Raoul Servais. Photographed by Walter Smets. Special effects by Raoul Servais. Music by Lucien Goethals. With Will Spoor, Fran Waller Zeper, Sjoert Schwibethus. (1978, 9 mins)

Gerald Frydman was a fiction writer for the cinema and television, as well as a photo-journalist and cartoonist, before turning to animation with several prize-winning animated shorts characterized by a Kafkaian and surrealist spirit.

Scarabus
• Directed and Written by Gerald Frydman. Additional decors by Claude Lambert. Music by Dimitri Shostakovitch. (1971, 13 mins, color)

Agulana
• Directed and Written by Gerald Frydman. Produced by Boris Szulzinger. Additional decors by Claude Lambert. Music by Giuseppe Verdi. (1973, color)

3 Cinematographic Fairy-Tales
With stories and concrete drawings executed in a very simple form, Louis Van Maelder (b.1929) attempts to show the evolution of the possibilities of drawings on the film itself.
• Directed by Louis Van Maelder. Music by Jean-Louis Majerus. (8-1/2 mins, color and b/w)

Papiers Animes
The third animated film by Paul Demeyer, a student of Raoul Servais, who also studied at the California Institute of the Arts and won the Student Film Award at the Beverly Hills Academy of Motion Pictures. Demeyer currently teaches animation at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent.
• By Paul Demeyer.

Elle Chante Comme Des Oiseaux (She Sings Like the Birds)
A student of Raoul Servais, Carl Van Isacker includes the music of Spike Jones (“People Are Funnier Than Anybody”) in this animated film.
• By Carl Van Isacker. With the music of Spike Jones. (1978, 1 min, color)

Ego
• A film by Daniel Schelthout.

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