Marwencol

press release: The Wisconsin Film Festival (WFF), in partnership with WUD Film, is excited to announce a new season of free Tuesday Night Movie Club screenings at the Marquee at Union South!

Launched in the fall of 2017 as a way to build up excitement for our 20th Annual Wisconsin Film Festival, these free monthly screenings featured films and shorts from past WFFs as well as special guests and fun Festival giveaways. We had so much fun last year that we decided to do it again this fall. Please join us and keep the Festival’s community spirit alive and kicking through the end of the year.

• Tuesday, December 11, 2018 | Marwencol (WFF 2011)

Directed by Jeff Malmberg | U.S.A. | 2010 | DCP | 83 min | English

After a vicious attack, where he suffered from extensive brain damage, artist Mark Hogancamp creates a small-scale and dangerous town of Marwencol, Belgium set in WWII era. He finds creating this town and elaborate scenarios therapeutic. The art market sees some of his documentation of his creation and Hogancamp has to decide if he should let others see his world in a gallery exhibition.

This incredible, indelible documentary scooped up top prizes at the 2010 SXSW, Hot Docs, Seattle, Silverdocs, Comic-Con and Vienna Film Festivals (among others), and was named one of the year’s 10 best films by “New York Magazine,” “Boston Globe,” “Slate,” and NPR. “Exactly the sort of mysterious and almost holy experience you hope to get from documentaries ... a homegrown slice of Herzog oddness.” — Michael Atkinson, “Village Voice”