Shock Head Soul ( Hlava duse sok )

Shock Head Soul (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Hlava duse sok
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Rotterdam International Film Festival
Venice Film Festival

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
86 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2011 and produced in:
Netherlands ( France, Benelux )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Simon Pummell

Written By:
Simon Pummell

Actors:
Hugo Koolschijn ..... Daniel Paul Schreber
Anniek Pheifer ..... Sabine Schreber
Thom Hoffman ..... Dr. Flechsig
Jochum ten Haaf ..... Dr. Tauscher

Synopsis:

In 1903 Daniel Paul Schreber published the most celebrated autobiography of madness 'from the inside' ever written. Shock Head Soul interleaves documentary interviews, fictional re-construction and CGI animation to portray his story. Daniel Paul 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 9 years confined to an asylum: tortured by delusions of cosmic control, suffering the belief that he was shifting gender and that his body was subjected to cruel 'miracles'. Schreber believed that only his submission to God's plan to change him into a woman would save the world. During his confinement he wrote Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, which has earned him lasting fame as an outsider artist, it allowed him to argue that that his belief system was a matter of religious freedom and that he was sane enough to return to society. Running as a recurrent motif through the film is an imaginary Writing Down Machine inspired by both the delusory writing down systems envisioned by Schreber and also the Hansen Writing Ball. This early visionary design for a typewriter is famous because Nietzsche used such a machine to compose reflections on the relationship between writing and technology. The film's mix of forms explores the borderline between religious vision and deluded fanaticism, and the intimate link between family secrets, psychiatric diagnosis, and our societal understanding of mental illness.

A feature length documentary that interleaves documentary interviews, fictional re-construction & CGI animation to portray Daniel Paul Schreber's story. Daniel Paul 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: tortured by delusions of cosmic control, suffering the belief that his body was subjected to cruel 'miracles'. During this nine year confinement he wrote Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (1903), which has earned him lasting fame as an outsider artist, and allowed him to argue that he was sane enough to return to society.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 04 January, 2013.