Shock Head Soul
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.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Simon Pummell
Cast: Hugo Koolschijn, Anniek Pheifer, Thom Hoffman, Jochum ten Haaf
Country: Netherlands, United Kingdom
Quality: HD
Runtime: 86 min.
Release: 2012
IMDb: 5/10
