If Dostoyevsky was correct that beauty will save the world, then apparently the new film, Loving Vincent about the last days of the life of Vincent van Gogh will in no small way get us closer to that. The film was seven years in the making, and involved 125 artists, painting over 800 canvases to create the animation for this film. It will be the world’s first ever painted feature length film. The story gets us to wonder what would have happened had van Gogh had not killed himself but rather had been murdered. The 90 minute film is made up of 65,000 frames, at 12 frames per second. Each painting had to be re-painted about 75 times in order to make this work. The sequences were shot on green screens and ‘over-painted’ by the artists. How else could one make a film about the artist without actually using his painting? Shot-in-the-Dark Films is showing this film on Wednesday evening, November 1, at 7.30 pm at Colossus Theatres in Langley. Tickets are $10 at the door.
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