After being brutally attacked outside a bar and recovering from a coma and extensive physical injuries, Mark Hogancamp suffered brain damage and nearly total memory loss. Unable to afford therapy he spent the next few years building a scale model, World War II-era town, Marwencol, populated with dolls,
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After being brutally attacked outside a bar and recovering from a coma and extensive physical injuries, Mark Hogancamp suffered brain damage and nearly total memory loss. Unable to afford therapy he spent the next few years building a scale model, World War II-era town, Marwencol, populated with dolls, where he lived out his fantasy life, and which he documented in photographs. When his photographs were discovered by an art magazine, a New York gallery invited him to show his work, forcing him to choose between his self-contained world and the larger world from which he had retreated.
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Statement of Responsibility:
directed, produced and edited by Jeff Malmberg ; produced by Tom Putnam ... [et al.] ; an Open Face production in association with Different By Design
Title:
Marwencol
[videorecording]
Publisher:
New York, NY :, Cinema Guild,, c2010.
Characteristics:
1 videodisc (84 min.) :,sd., col. ;,4 3/4 in.
Notes:
Originally produced in 2010.
Credits:
Music, Ash Black, Bufflo ; camera, Jeff Malmberg ... [et al.].
Performers:
Participant: Mark Hogancamp.
Summary:
After being brutally attacked outside a bar and recovering from a coma and extensive physical injuries, Mark Hogancamp suffered brain damage and nearly total memory loss. Unable to afford therapy he spent the next few years building a scale model, World War II-era town, Marwencol, populated with dolls, where he lived out his fantasy life, and which he documented in photographs. When his photographs were discovered by an art magazine, a New York gallery invited him to show his work, forcing him to choose between his self-contained world and the larger world from which he had retreated.
Audience:
Rating Not Rated
System Details:
DVD, anamorphic widescreen (16:9) presentation; Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subject Headings:
Photography, Artistic Video recordings.
Models and modelmaking Therapeutic use Video recordings.
Victims of violent crimes Rehabilitation Video recordings.
Brain damage Patients Rehabilitation Video recordings.
Artists New York (State) Kingston Biography Video recordings.
Hogancamp, Mark Video recordings.
Genre/Form:
Feature films-United States-local
Feature films
Nonfiction films
Documentary films
Topical Term:
Photography, Artistic
Models and modelmaking
Victims of violent crimes
Brain damage
Artists
Publisher No:
2377
ISBN:
9780781513517
0781513510
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Add a CommentInteresting, funny, compelling - everything you want in a documentary.
I caught this on PBS a few days ago, it certainly was very interesting to see how the building of the doll town Marwencol really helped Mark in a theraputic manner. I was impressed by the amount of detail he included in the town and was surprised by some of Mark's behaviours. All in all, it was well directed movie and it is well worth a watch.