Shock Head Soul

5.0

Genre: Documentary
Run time: 86 min
Premiere: 2012. April 26.

Director: Simon Pummell
Writer: Simon Pummell
Starring: Hugo Koolschijn Anniek Pheifer Thom Hoffman Jochum ten Haaf

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.