Shock Head Soul (2011)

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.

86 minDocumentary

Directors

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), Ian Christie (as Ian Christie), Eileen Joyce (as Eileen Joyce), Roger Kennedy (as Roger Kennedy), Chris Nietvelt, Clive Robinson (as Clive Robinson), Andrea Sabbadini (as Andrea Sabbadini), Paul Williams (as Paul Williams)