2010 · art · portrait · trauma
Marwencol
Directed by Jeff Malmberg1h 23m2010
After a vicious attack leaves him brain-damaged and broke, Mark Hogancamp seeks recovery in "Marwencol", a 1/6th scale World War II-era town he creates in his backyard.
Our read: Marwencol (2010) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive art · portrait · trauma entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured art / portrait, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- inventive
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