Shock Head Soul

Shock Head Soul

86 mins | Documentary | April 26, 2012

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.

Shock Head Soul

86 mins | Documentary | April 26, 2012

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.
Producers Hot Property Films, Illuminations Films, Submarine
Original title Shock Head Soul
Directors Simon Pummell
Writers Simon Pummell

Cast

Hugo Koolschijn

as Daniel Paul Schreber

Anniek Pheifer

as Sabine Schreber

Thom Hoffman

as Dr. Flechsig

Jochum ten Haaf

as Dr. Tauscher