Van Gogh’s life & death alive in paintings

In producing the movie,

Loving Vincent, every one of the 65,000 frames of the film is an oil-painting handpainted by 123 professional oil painters who traveled from across the world to the Loving Vincent Studios in Poland and Greece to be part of the production. As remarkable as Vincent van Gogh’s brilliant paintings, is his passionate and ill-fated life, and mysterious death.

No other artist has attracted more legends than Van Gogh. Variously labeled a martyr, a lustful satyr, a madman, a genius and a layabout, the real Van Gogh is at once revealed in his letters and obscured by myth and time. The artist himself said in his last letters, “We cannot speak other than by our paintings.”

Loving Vincent was first shot as a live action film with actors, and then hand-painted over frame-by-frame in oils. The final effect is an interaction of the performance of the actors playing the artist’s famous portraits, and the performance of the painting animators, bringing these characters into the medium of paint. The film stars famous faces to match the paintings they portray.

Loving Vincent has already garnered an Audience Award in the recently-concluded Annecy Animation Festival, and is a shoo-in to the forthcoming Oscar Awards in the Best Animation Feature Category.

The movie is showing nationwide and exclusively distributed by Solar Pictures.