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Tag: Marwencol

  • “Welcome to Marwencol,” the book

    Listen to this post: This blog has decidedly too few mentions of “Marwencol.” So here we go. Watch that film. And if you’re like me, and you wish you could look at the images from the film every day, you can buy the book, “Welcome to Marwencol.” Voila. Mark Hogencamp created the town of Marwencol at his…

  • Personal stories, not education

    Listen to this post: Cynthia, my filmmaker, was talking with some fans of documentary film. When she told one this new project will be focused on artists with brain injuries, here was the response she got: “Oh! So it’s going to be an educational film?” Well… not really. She explained it’ll be a documentary with…

  • How do you tell someone else’s story?

    Listen to this post: If you’ve been to my other site you might have seen a glowing endorsement of the documentary film “Marwencol.” I keep a running list of stories and arts by people with brain injuries on that site. Rarely do I want to watch any movie more than once, but this one has been…