Shock Head Soul (2011)

  • NR
  • 09/03/2011 (IT)
  • Documentary
  • 1h 26m

Overview

This cross-media documentary (film, installation and website) explores the life and writings of Daniel Paul Schreber. Now famous as an Outsider Artist, Schreber was a successful lawyer, who in 1893, started to receive messages from God via a ‘Writing Down Machine’ that spanned the cosmos. He spent the next nine years confined to an asylum. This is his story.

Simon Pummell

Director, Writer

Cast

Hugo Koolschijn's headshot

Hugo Koolschijn

Daniel Paul Schreber
Anniek Pheifer's headshot

Anniek Pheifer

Sabine Schreber
Thom Hoffman's headshot

Thom Hoffman

Dr. Flechsig
Jochum ten Haaf's headshot

Jochum ten Haaf

Dr. Tauscher

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