Marwencol
Jeff Malmberg | USA 2010 | 83 min. 
Material: HD
Format: BluRay
Original language: English
Script: Jeff Malmberg
Camera: Jeff Malmberg, Tom Putnam, Matt Radecki, Kevin Walsh
Editing: Jeff Malmberg
Sound Design: Pete Kneser
With Mark Hogancamp
Production: Open Face, Different By Design
Print/Sales: The Film Sales Company
Awards (selection): Independent Spirit Award, Best Documentary of the Year (Boston Society of Film Critics and Rotten Tomatoes), Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary, SXSW Film Festival 2010
Mark Hogancamp miraculously survives a senseless beating outside a bar only to emerge from a coma with memory loss and brain damage. Unable to afford therapy, he creates his own, right in his backyard. He begins to build Marwencol, a remarkable WWII-era town at 1/16 scale. He populates the sets with dolls representing his friends and family, and even his attackers, in an attempt to heal the psychic wounds from his beating. In dramatic scenes, his alter ego fighter pilot triumphs over evil. But when photographs of his stunning, meticulous work are published in an art magazine, the reclusive victim becomes an instant "artist". With a deft camera that confuses inner and outer life, filmmaker Jeff Malmberg creates a moody, hauntingly original film that captures the crux of Hogancamp's crisis: will he choose between his fantasy life or the real world he's carefully avoided? - Myrocia Watamaniuk, HotDocs Toronto
Jeff Malmberg is director, producer and editor, graduate of USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. The award-winning ‘Marwencol’ is his directorial debut. In 2006, Jeff produced and edited ‘Red White Black & Blue’. As a film and television editor, Malmberg’s credits include the critically acclaimed documentary series ‘American Gangster,’ ‘Unsung,’ ‘Biography’ and numerous shows for the History Channel.