Loving Vincent — 5 years, 125 artists, 853 oil paintings, 65000 hand-drawn frames to create this novel experience

The world’s first fully hand-painted feature film — ‘Loving Vincent’ is the result of over 5 years of blood, sweat, toil and paint — 125 artists made 853 oil paintings and then kept making minor adjustments for bringing movement into each frame. The movie is spread across 1 hour 34 minutes where each second consists of 12 frames, so in all they made about 65,000 hand-drawn frames.

The makers and artists thought this Herculean effort had to be made to build a tribute to a man known as one of the greatest artists humanity has produced. An artist who started painting only at the age of 28 and made over 2000 artworks in a decade before taking his own life. He lived in poverty and illness, was bullied and lonely and died as the template of the ‘tormented artist’. He managed to sell only 1 painting in his lifetime but was posthumously declared ‘The Father of Modern Art’. While watching the movie, it’s easy to forget the unreal effort that must have gone into making it for it sucks you in completely with its drama and mystique.

Imagine the beauty of thousands of hand paintings plastered across a giant film screen and you staring in awe and wonder! We managed to fuck up even this spectacular sight by sticking a ‘SMOKING KILLS’ warning on the bottom right OF EVERY SINGLE frame and not just its 4 animated frames of people smoking.

I was moved during the movie and felt emotionally connected to Van Gogh but I wish the story had spent more time on his life than on his death! Still, this is an experience unlike any other, don’t miss it if you get a chance!