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Shock Head Soul

2012
Directed bySimon Pummell
1h 26m

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 KoolschijnDaniel Paul SchreberAnniek Pheifer
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STATUSReleased
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5.2

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