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Marwencol

MARWENCOL (Jeff Malmberg, U.S.). 83 minutes.

Tuesday (May 4), 9:45 pm, Innis Town Hall May 6, 1:30 pm, Cumberland 3.

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Outsider art has never been as riveting – or as revealing – as it is in Jeff Malmberg’s study of Mark Hogancamp, a Kingston, New York, man who has constructed an elaborate scale-model world in his backyard as a way to cope with the after-effects of a brutal beating that left him with brain damage and memory loss.

Hogancamp’s fantasyland is a Belgian village where Germans and Americans can wait out the Second World War in peace its unfolding narrative finds his avatar, “Hank,” dragged away by the SS and tortured until the local women rally to his rescue. When Hogancamp’s dynamic photographs come to the attention of a Greenwich Village art gallery, everything changes – and Malmberg probes even deeper into his subject’s complicated, wounded soul.

One of the best movies you’ll see this year.[rssbreak]

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