Exactly the sort of mysterious and almost holy experience you hope to get from documentaries but rarely do, Jeff Malmberg’s Marwencol is something like a homegrown slice of Herzog oddness, complete ...

Exactly the sort of mysterious and almost holy experience you hope to get from documentaries and rarely do, Jeff Malmberg’s Marwencol begins with context: In 2000, Mark Hogancamp, an upstate New York ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The moment of discovery is a complex thing for any artist working in obscurity. For the fascinating, unclassifiable subject of "Marwencol," it's also the most recent ...

Documentary. Directed by Jeff Malmberg. (Not rated. 83 minutes. At the Lumiere in San Francisco and Shattuck Cinemas in Berkeley.) Advertisement Article continues below this ad If you have even a ...

[For more information on Marwencol, see http://www.marwencol.com/] Like all accomplished war photographers, Mark Hogancamp puts himself at risk. He shoots fugitive ...

In recent years, several documentaries have profiled reclusive, self-taught artists who created elaborate fantasy worlds. But Mark Hogancamp, the caretaker of a toy village he calls Marwencol, isn't ...

After being brutally attacked outside a bar and recovering from a coma and extensive physical injuries, Mark Hogancamp suffered brain damage and nearly total memory loss. Unable to afford therapy he ...

“Welcome to Marwen” is about a grown man who plays with toys. That’s what it looks like Mark Hogancamp is doing, anyway. His house in Kingston, New York, is full of dolls, action figures and ...

In the spring of 2000, Mark Hogancamp was brutally beaten outside a bar in Kingston, N.Y. After paramedics brought him back from certain death, he stayed in a coma for several days; when he emerged ...