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Dec 18, 2018 · How did Mark Hogancamp's 1:6 scale WWII town of Marwencol get its name? The name of Mark Hogancamp's 1:6 scale World War II-era Belgian town of "Marwencol", which he built along the side of his trailer home, is a combination of Mark's own name and the names of two women he had crushes on, Wendy and Colleen.
Dec 19, 2018 · The premise: Marwencol is a 2010 documentary about the extraordinary artist and photographer Mark Hogancamp, who constructs intimate fantasy worlds with deeply personal narratives in his backyard ...
Dec 20, 2018 · Hogancamp built a tiny “Belgian village,” originally called Marwen and later Marwencol, in his backyard and populated it with characters—some based on people he knew, some imaginary ...
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About — Marwencol. On April 8, 2000, Mark Hogancamp was attacked by five men and left for dead outside of a bar in Kingston, NY. After nine days in a coma, he awoke to find he had no memory of his previous adult life. He had to relearn how to eat, walk and write. When his state-sponsored rehabilitative therapies ran out, Mark took his ...
Dec 24, 2018 · Feeling as though the world had turned on him, he began to create his own, a tiny society he called Marwencol. Named after himself and two women he had crushes on, Wendy and Colleen, and built out ...
Apr 6, 2011 · After he lost his memory, Mark Hogancamp created a universe of his own: a tiny World War II-era town called Marwencol, the subject of a documentary.
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Dec 21, 2018 · Amid his recovery, Hogancamp constructed a detailed model of a fictional town called Marwencol filled with figurines meant to represent real people in his life as a way of therapy.
