Marwencol

14A - Advisories: Coarse Language & Mature Subject Matter

When Mark Hogancamp survives a severe beating outside a small town bar only to have his rehabilitation cut short by his medical insurance provider, he retreats into a fantasy world of his own design called Marwencol—a 1/16 scale Second World War-era village where not only can he work to refine his motor skills, he can exact revenge on the men who nearly killed him. The twist? His wrongdoers are 18-inch dolls dressed as Nazis.

MARWENCOL follows both Mark and his alter ego (also named Mark, a U.S. Army captain) through the daily intrigues of life in his model Belgian town—a town inhabited only by women—where he runs a “cat fighting bar” to entertain “soldiers” passing through. The meticulously crafted and photographed storylines take the real Mark outside of his manufactured world and into another world nearly as bizarre: the art world.

BDG

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Grand Jury Award
SXSW Film Festival 2010; Emerging Artist Award
Hot Docs 2010; Audience Award
Fantasia 2010 Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2010
Official Selection Hot Docs 2010
Official Selection Fantasia 2010

Director: Jeff Malmberg
Producer: Jeff Malmberg, Tom Putnam, Matt Radecki, Chris Shellen, Kevin Walsh
Cinematographer JEFF MALMBERG, TOM PUTNAM, MATT RADECKI, KEVIN WALSH
Editor: Jeff Malmberg
Music: Ash Black Buffalo
Cast: Mark Hogancamp

Preceded by SHORT FILM: Arsy-Versy
Slovak with English subtitles

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