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Marwencol, Cinema Guild ; directed and produced by Jeff Malmberg ; produced by Tom Putnam, Matt Radecki, Chris Shellen, and Kevin Walsh

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Marwencol

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Cinema Guild ; directed and produced by Jeff Malmberg ; produced by Tom Putnam, Matt Radecki, Chris Shellen, and Kevin Walsh

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After being brutally attacked outside a bar and in spite of 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 of a 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

Dream -- The attack -- Who am i? -- Crash landing -- The rules of town -- The search for love -- Discovered -- What if your therapy became art? -- The art show -- Who I am -- The big city jitters -- What to wear? -- The day of the show -- Opening night -- Return to Marwencol

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