Shock Head Soul (2012)

5.2/10 • 86 min • Documentary

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.

Cast

Hugo Koolschijn

Daniel Paul Schreber

Anniek Pheifer

Sabine Schreber

Thom Hoffman

Jochum ten Haaf

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