Salisbury Film Society Presents 'Loving Vincent'

SALISBURY, MD---The Salisbury Film Society (SFS) presents the animated drama, Loving Vincent, on Sunday, November 4, at 2:30 p.m. in Fulton Hall’s Film Center at Salisbury University.

Winner of Most Popular International Feature at the 2017 Vancouver International Film Festival and nominated for Best Animated Feature Film at the 2018 Academy Awards, Loving Vincent tells the story of Vincent Van Gogh’s life and unusual death through oil paintings. One year after the artist’s death, postman Roulin tasks his son Armand with delivering Van Gogh’s last letter to his brother Theo. As suspicious details fail to add up along the way, Armand finds himself fascinated with the psyche and fate of Van Gogh.

Loving Vincent is “an animated masterpiece! An absolute stunning film that not only does justice to the art of Van Gogh, but also to the art of movies,” said Deadline’s Pete Hammond. “I have never seen anything on screen like it before.” 

Rather than traditional actors, co-directors Hugh Welchman and Dorota Kobiela chose 125 classically trained oil painters to travel to Poland and Greece to hand paint each of the film’s 65,000 frames in oil. “Visually, it’s spectacular,” said Stephanie Merry of The Washington Post. “Conceptually, it’s jaw-dropping to simply consider the effort that went into this.”

The SFS series is co-sponsored by the Salisbury Wicomico Arts Council (SWAC) and SU’s Charles R. and Martha N. Fulton School of Liberal Arts.

Tickets are $9, $8 for SWAC members, and free for university and college students with ID. For more information call 410-543-ARTS (2787) or visit the SWAC website.