Watching all of the films in the tribute collection to Raoul Servais one becomes overwhelmed. It’s not just the quality of his work but also by the realization that his work and style were lifted by non-Disney filmmakers across the globe. Granted some of the image’s echo what was done by the Disney artists in Fantasia 2000, but the truth is that filmmakers like the Hubley’s, Ralph Bakshi, ----, and others. You also have to realize that his work was influenced by and an influenced on other European animators who all operated in a society where animation was not just for kids.
Servais’ work is not really for kids. There is more serious edge to it. Yes there are cute characters and plots, say in CHromaphobia which is about people who hate color, but there is a more serious edge about control and division of humanity which comes as a warning some 20 years after the Axis Powers tried to refashion the world in their image. These films hit harder for thinking adults.
Watching the films in the collection I felt like I was dropped into another time and place. While Servais had a great influence on cinema as we know it (both live action and animation) his filkms are also of the time they were made and seeing them in succession you can feel that time leaking in to the theater from the edges of the frame.
This collection is glorious. Its one that must be seen by those who love art and animation and cinema because it will force you to make connections and readjust your notions about the visual arts.
Buy a ticket and go.
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