Raoul Servais
Raoul Servais (Belgium, 1928-2023) is considered a pioneer of animated film, whose oeuvre is renowned around the world: it received over sixty prizes, including the Palme d’Or at Cannes for Harpya in 1979. Servais made sixteen short films and the feature film Taxandria (1994), a combination of live-action and animation. The same technical process, also dubbed Servaisgraphy, was successfully applied in Nocturnal Butterflies (1998), a nostalgic evocation of the world of painter Paul Delvaux.