Free Movie Night at the Harlow Gallery is back with Marwencol on September 19th

Hallowell, Maine - The public is invited to the Harlow Gallery at 160 Water Street in downtown Hallowell for a FREE screening of Marwencol on Wednesday September 19th at 7:00pm.  "Marwencol" is an independent film, directed by Jeff Malmberg, documenting the town Mark Hogancamp created to revisit traumatic events in his life. The intensity and honesty in Hogancamp’s art, as well as Malmberg’s sensitivity to Hogancamp’s motivation - makes you stop and take a closer look at today’s art world. Mark your calenders -- Free Film Night at the Harlow is now a regular event on the third Wednesday of each month!  Movie Nights at the Harlow are free and open to the public, but donations to Harlow Gallery are always appreciated.

More on "Marwencol":
"Marwencol" is a documentary about the fantasy world of Mark Hogancamp. After being beaten into a brain-damaging coma by five men outside a bar, Mark builds a 1/6th scale World War II-era town in his backyard. Mark populates the town he dubs "Marwencol" with dolls representing his friends and family and creates life-like photographs detailing the town's many relationships and dramas. Playing in the town and photographing the action helps Mark to recover his hand-eye coordination and deal with the psychic wounds of the attack. When Mark and his photographs are discovered, a prestigious New York gallery sets up an art show. Suddenly Mark's homemade therapy is deemed "art", forcing him to choose between the safety of his fantasy life in Marwencol and the real world that he's avoided since the attack.

"Marwencol" was released theatrically by the Cinema Guild and aired on PBS. It has won over 25 awards, including two Independent Spirit Awards, Best Documentary of the Year from the Boston Society of Film Critics and Rotten Tomatoes, and the Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary at the South by Southwest Film Festival.

The Los Angeles Times calls the film “an exhilarating, utterly unique experience” while the Village Voice says that it's “exactly the sort of mysterious and almost holy experience you hope to get from documentaries and rarely do.”