Shock Head Soul (2012)

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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