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One night, in a city during the Belle Époque, a man with a moustache[a] is walking down a street when he hears the cries of a woman. He rushes towards the noise and finds a man strangling the woman in a fountain. The moustachioed man knocks out the assailant and discovers the woman is a harpy, a large, white bird of prey with the bald head and nake...
Harpya explores authority, domination and oppression, themes that recur in the films of Raoul Servais. These themes are reflected in the story about the harpy who dominates the simple, middle-class protagonist, and in the film's atmosphere and dark colour scheme. Unlike the director's earlier films, which discuss domination in relation to society a...
Servais was established as a central figure in Belgian animation before he made Harpya. He made his first animated short film in 1959 and taught animation at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent from 1966. In 1969, he co-founded the animation studio Pen-Film and in 1976, he co-created the Belgisch Animatiefilmcentrum (lit.'Belgian Animation Film...
Harpya competed at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival, which was held from 10 to 24 May. With a running time of nine minutes, it was the third time one of Servais' short films was selected for the festival; he had previously participated with Goldframe in 1969 and Operation X-70 in 1972. Harpya was subsequently shown out of competition at a series of ot...
Critical response
Derek Hill of Sight & Sound and Poorter compared Harpya to Servais' previous films. Hill called it "by far the most complex" work Servais had done and Poorter wrote its pessimistic tone makes it stand out although its music contributes to an ironic and less serious side. Gilles Colpart[fr] of La Revue du cinéma[fr] wrote Harpya should be regarded as a masterpiece of animation, even by people who are uninterested in its "phantasmagoric universe". Le Monde's Jacques Siclier[fr] said it was the...
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Harpya won the Palme d'Or for Best Short Film at the Cannes Film Festival. At the 1979 Annecy International Animation Film Festival, an international group of critics voted Harpya one of the twelve best animated films ever made. Servais described it as being awarded twice; first by the festival jury in Cannes and then by the critics. Harpya received the 1980 Sant Jordi Award for Best Foreign Short Film from the Catalan branch of Radio Nacional de España. In 1984, Harpya finished in 22nd place...
Harpya's positive reception and its Palme d'Or win gave Servais international renown, and prompted more film festivals to invite him onto their competition juries. Several film schools invited him to teach at their animation departments. Although Servais did not reuse the animation technique from Harpya, responses to the film encouraged him to cont...
Harpya at IMDbHarpya at AllMovieHarpya at Calindex.eu[fr] (in French)27 ago 2021 · Epic poems like The Iliad and The Odyssey - along with many cinematic adaptations of Greek mythology - feature a strange winged creature known as the harpy. Personifying the storm wings, these half-human, half-bird creatures were sent by the god Zeus to snatch away people from the face of the earth.
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Harpy Films. Founded by Charlotte Driessen in 2021 and based in the lively city of Breda in the south of The Netherlands, Harpy Films focusses on both national and international film productions. Harpy Films translates real stories to powerful content to leave a clear message or to confuse you.
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