WFF Tuesday Night Movie Club: Marwencol (2010)

The Wisconsin Film Festival (WFF), in partnership with WUD Film, is excited to present Tuesday Night Movie Club (TNMC) screenings at the Marquee at Union South! All screenings are free and open to the public.

United States | 83 min | NR | DCP | Dir. Jeff Malmberg

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.

"Simultaneously hypnotic and unnerving, it asks some rather uncomfortable questions about the nature of art and the potential and limits of self-healing." -John Hartl (Seattle Times) 

Assistive Screening Accommodations for Patrons with Disability: 

• Assisted Listening Device Amplification Available
• Closed Captions and Visually Impaired Audio Description not available for this title

This free event is intended for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff, Wisconsin Union members, and their guests.