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This year's Summer Reading theme is Reading Colors Your World, so let's brighten our day by virtually watching and commenting on a film together! Conclude our summer Watch Party series with the award-winning Loving Vincent, accompanied by a lecture on Van Gogh's art and life by Dr. Cara Smulevitz, an associate professor of Art History at San Diego Mesa college. She specializes in Modern and Contemporary art history. Register for login information.
DESCRIPTION: Loving Vincent brings the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh to life to tell his remarkable story. Every one of the 65,000 frames of the film is an oil painting, hand-painted by 125 professional oil painters who travelled across the world to the Loving Vincent studios in Poland and Greece to be a part of the production. As remarkable as Vincent's brilliant paintings is his passionate and ill-fated life, and mysterious death. 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 the interaction of the performance of the actors playing Vincent's famous portraits, and the performance of the painting animators, bringing these characters into the medium of paint.
PG-13 | 1hr 35min | Feature Film, Animation, Biography | 2017
Enjoy a watch party every Friday in July at 5:00pm:
- 7/2 - The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
- 7/9 - Pier Kids (2021)
- 7/16 - White Zombie (1932)
- 7/23 - Behind Green Lights (1946)
- 7/30 - Loving Vincent (2017)
This year's Summer Reading Program runs through August 31st. Sign-up at sandiego.gov/SummerReading then earn prizes for reading and completing activities.