Marwencol: when his world
was stolen Mark Hogancamp made a world of his own. A documentary directed and produced
by Jeff Malmberg. Library Call Number: RC387.5 .M37 2010.
The story of a man who literally had
to rebuild his mind, and did it on his own,, this film won best documentary
from the Independent Spirit Awards, The Boston Film society and numerous other
festivals.
From the caption: 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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