MARWENCOL

“It just gets weirder and weirder.” - Mark Hogancamp

After a vicious bashing left him brain damaged and broke, Mark Hogancamp sought recovery in ‘Marwencol' - a 1/6th-scale World War II-era town he created in his backyard.

Barbie dolls, G.I. Joes and model army figures represent the ‘characters' in his life as he participates in his own ‘homebrand' therapy through the town's many battles and dramas. When his photographs of Marwencol are discovered by a New York gallery, Mark must choose between the refuge of his fantasy world and the one he's avoided since the attack.

Winner of this year's SXSW Competition Award.

“Who's to say that Mark's constructed reality is any less valid than most people's ‘real world'? In Marwencol, they may find more love, pain, morality and feeling than in their actual lives.” - filmmaker Jeff Malmberg