Shock Head Soul
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 2012-04-26
Runtime: 86 mins
Director: Simon Pummell
Writer: Simon Pummell
Spoken language: English
Genres: Documentary
Original title: Shock Head Soul
Production Companies: Hot Property Films, Illuminations Films, Submarine
Production Countries: Netherlands, United Kingdom
