Meet Mark Hogancamp.  In April of 2000, Mark was attacked outside a bar in New York State and literally beaten to death by a group of five men.  Though Mark would be revived by paramedics he would spend nine days in a coma and awake brain damaged and so badly battered that his own mother didn't even recognize him.  The beating was so severe that his entire memory was in tatters.

And so, having lost his own history, Mark went home on release and set about creating a new one, a fictional world called Marwencol built from Barbie dolls and scale model army toys.  It began - at least partially - as a way to regain fine muscle control in his hands but quickly became something much larger and far more significant.

Film maker Jeff Malmberg has spent the past four years documenting Hogancamp's life and work and the results - the documentary feature Marwencol - are about to premiere at SXSW.  While there is no proper trailer yet, you will find three clips embedded below.