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Twenty Greek Artists Participate in Van Gogh Animated Film [video]

1--23-thumb-largeTwenty Greek artists are participating in “Loving Vincent,” an animation film of Vincent Van Gogh works, painted entirely with oil on canvas and a plot based on letters the great artist wrote himself.
A part of the film is made in Greece, at the Mabrida studios in Koropi, a town near Athens. Mabrida is known for children’s TV programs, animated productions and puppetry projects. The animation department are collaborating with Studio Bauhaus productions, under the guidance of Constantinos Vassilaros. It was his idea to transfer part of the “Loving Vincent” production in Greece. Currently 20 young Greek artists have undertaken 20 percent of the primary production process of the film. In Poland, 72 of their colleagues work for the same purpose.
Directed by Polish painter and director Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman (Oscar winner for producing Peter and the Wolf), the experimental film features the work of famous artists including Saoirse Ronan, Aidan Turner, Douglas Booth, Helen McCrory, Chris O’Dowd and Jerome Flynn.
It will take more than 60,000 frames painted to complete the shooting of the animated film, according to Hugh Welchman. This is what the creators say about the ambitious project.
‘Loving Vincent is an investigation delving into the life and controversial death of Vincent Van Gogh, one of the world’s most beloved painters, as told through his paintings and by the characters that inhabit them. The intrigue unfolds through interviews with the characters closest to Vincent and through dramatic reconstructions of the events leading up to his death.
‘It features over 120 of Vincent Van Gogh’s greatest paintings. The plot is drawn from the 800 letters written by the painter himself…Vincent wrote in his last letter: “Well, the truth is, we cannot speak other than by our paintings,” and that is what we are doing – letting his paintings tell the story of what the painter had inside his heart, and ultimately, what happened to him.’


 

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