Marwencol

When his world was stolen, Mark Hogancamp made a world of his own.
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DVD Details

  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 24 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: December 18, 2018
  • Originally Released: 2018
  • Label: Cinema Guild

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 2,428
Rating: 3.5/4 -- Marwencol is about Hogancamp and his miniature alter-ego, about his photographs and his creative process. But it is also, on a deeper level, about how we process our experiences... Full Review
Philadelphia Inquirer
Nov 18, 2010
Extraordinary, astonishing, revealing, unique Full Review
Urban Cinefile
Sep 9, 2012
Rating: 3/4 -- Simultaneously hypnotic and unnerving, it asks some rather uncomfortable questions about the nature of art and the potential and limits of self-healing.
Seattle Times
Dec 28, 2010
Rating: 3/4 -- A fascinating portrait of an artist who didn't even know he was one that challenges its audiences' notions of art and reality by confronting them with a man who refuses to be pigeonholed. Full Review
From the Front Row
Aug 5, 2019
Rating: 3/4 -- If you have even a passing interest in outsider art, you owe it to yourself to see "Marwencol." Full Review
San Francisco Chronicle
Dec 2, 2010
Rating: 4/5 -- Malmberg hangs back, allowing the character of Hogancamp - rather than any contrivance or "plot" - to power the film. Full Review
Vox
Dec 19, 2018
Rating: 3/4 -- Director Jeff Malmberg sees something in Hogancamp that he wants all of us to see, an imperfect human scarred by horrific trauma who nonetheless finds a reason to live. Full Review
Toronto Star
Dec 28, 2010

Product Description:

After a night of drinking at a bar in his hometown of Kingston, NY, Mark Hogancamp got in a fistfight and was beaten so badly he went into a coma. When Hogancamp regained consciousness, he was diagnosed with brain damage and struggled to return to a normal life. As he tried to put his life back together, Hogancamp came up with an unusual hobby -- using G.I. Joe action figures and Barbie dolls, Hogancamp created an elaborate scale model community in his backyard that he calls Marwencol (named for three characters he's dubbed Mark, Wendy, and Colleen). Marwencol is supposed to be a village in Belgium during World War II, and the scene is full of intrigue and military violence; several of the characters also represent his friends and relatives, and one is based on a married neighbor with whom he's infatuated. Marwencol provides Hogancamp with a fantasy world he can retreat into as he deals with the realities of his life following the beating, but the parallels into his real life are troubling to some people he knows, and when a gallery in New York City offers to present Hogancamp's project as an art installation, he has to decide if he's really willing to share Marwencol with the world at large. Filmmaker Jeff Malmberg profiles Mark Hogancamp and the world he created from toys and his imagination in the documentary MARWENCOL, which received its world premiere at the 2010 South by Southwest Film Festival.

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  • UPC: 881164001238
  • Shipping Weight: 0.23/lbs (approx)
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