From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. You can also live this show at KCRW.com.

One of the most difficult things are doing documentaries to create a sense of emotional reality.

What the director, Jeff Malmberg does of his film, Marwan Call, is just that.

He came to that very honestly by editing many films, including a few documentaries.

Jeff, thanks so much for being here.

It's a pleasure to be here.

Thank you.

Do me a favor, explain to the audience what Marlon Call is about. Marlon Call is a documentary about a man named Mark Hogan Camp who was attacked outside of a bar in upstate New York in the year 2000 and pretty much beaten with an initiative of his life was left for dead, ended up in the hospital in a coma, Westchester Medical for 47 days.

And when he got out, he really had no sense of his previous life. He

had traumatic brain injury. He had PTSD. He couldn't really piece together any of the pieces of his

life and make it whole. So as a way of recovering and kind of both physical recovery and also

mental recovery, you know, physical recovery and also mental recovery.

You know, he lives very close to the bone.

He doesn't have, he's on Medicaid, you know, he didn't have a lot of therapy options.

He started building a one-sixth scale World War II era town that eventually was dubbed Marwin Call.

And in this town, there are dolls which represent people

in his real life, his mom, his friends, even his attackers. Keep in mind, this is also all

World War II themes. So the attackers, of course, are Nazis. Then there are, you know, he's a P-51 bomber pilot,

and he's sort of the hero of this narrative.

And, you know, that's sort of where our story begins.

And it ends up in a place that's really about

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