Project Detail

Shock Head Soul

Synopsis

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.

Details

Year
2011
Type of project
Features
Running time
86 mins
Director
Simon Pummell
Producer
Janine Marmot, Femke Wolting, Bruno Felix
Co-Producer
Marc Thelosen, Koert Davidse
Executive Producer
Keith Griffiths
Editor
Tim Roza
Screenwriter
Simon Pummell
Director of Photography
Reinier van Brummelen
Production Designer
Rosie Stapel
Sound
Diego van Uden
Composer
Roger Goula Sarda
Principal cast
Thom Hoffman, Hugo Koolschijn, Anniek Pheifer, Jochum ten Haaf

Categories

Production Status

Production Company

Hot Property Films

47 Saint Charles Square
London
W10 6EN
UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 8969 7997

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