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Shock Head Soul

Simon Pummell

2012

  • Documentary
5.2

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.

Cast & crew

  • Simon PummellDirector
  • Hugo KoolschijnDaniel Paul Schreber
  • Anniek PheiferSabine Schreber
  • Thom HoffmanDr. Flechsig
  • Jochum ten HaafDr. Tauscher

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