Pete Brook chronicles the journey of a former Navy man who was severely beaten eleven years ago for cross-dressing. To reenter the world, Mark Hogancamp built Marwencol, a Nazi-besieged, World War II era town in his backyard, complete with action figure versions of his friends:
For more than a decade, 1/6 scale dolls have played out existential and therapeutic stories of love and war, friendship and enmity, heroism and cowardice, and desire and restraint. In some cases, the stories of Marwencol mirror reality, sometimes they’re purely fantasy; usually they blur the two.
A documentary on Hogancamp airs on PBS' Independedent Lens on April 26th.
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