Shock Head Soul
Apr 26 2012
•1h 26m
•Documentary
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.
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Hugo Koolschijn
Daniel Paul Schreber
Anniek Pheifer
Sabine Schreber
Thom Hoffman
Dr. Flechsig
Jochum ten Haaf
Dr. Tauscher
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