Shock Head Soul
MovieTitle | Shock Head Soul |
User score | 5 |
Release date | Apr 26, 2012 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Simon Pummell |
Production country | Netherlands, United Kingdom |
Production companies | Hot Property Films, Illuminations Films, Submarine |
Run time | 86 min. |
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.