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Artist's Choice: Movie Nights | Ana Benaroya

Image Courtesy Criterion Collection and Janus Films.

Artist’s Choice: Movie Nights is a three-week film series that highlights the continued importance of cinema and the moving image for artists working across media. Programmed by Ana Benaroya, Awol Erizku, and Cynthia Daignault, the series will bring together an eclectic mix of films offering reflections on each artist’s respective practice or cinematic interests, allowing audience members to consider how visual histories interact and cross-pollinate with one another.

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Screening schedule:

Wednesday, July 23: Selection by Ana Benaroya

Marwencol (2010), dir. Jeff Malmberg (Run time: 83 minutes)

Marwencol is a feature 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.

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