"We cannot speak other than by our paintings"

- Written by Vincent van Gogh in a letter the week before his death

Join us for a captivating evening featuring a screening of Loving Vincent, the world’s first fully painted feature film, followed by an insightful conversation with Filmmaker Hugh Welchman. Discover the story of Vincent van Gogh’s final years through this visually stunning, Academy Award-nominated masterpiece.

Paintings from the film will be on display and available for purchase.

• 6:00 PM Doors: Purchase wine or beer and mingle at our upstairs bar

• 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM: Sit and enjoy a screening of Loving Vincent

• 8:00 PM - 8:30 PM: Listen to an insightful conversation with Filmmaker Hugh Welchman moderated by True West Film Center.

About the Film: Loving Vincent is the world's first fully painted feature film. Written & directed by Dorota Kobiela & Hugh Welchman, produced by Poland's BreakThru Films & UK's Trademark Films.

The film 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 from all 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.

No other artist has attracted more legends than Vincent van Gogh. Variously labelled a martyr, a lustful satyr, a madman, a genius and a layabout, the real Vincent is at once revealed in his letters, and obscured by myth and time. Vincent himself said in his last letter: 'We cannot speak other than by our paintings'. We take him at his word and let the paintings tell the real story of Vincent van Gogh.

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 an 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. Loving Vincent stars famous faces to match the famous paintings they portray.