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.
26th April 2012
14 years ago
1 hour 26 minutes
Finishes at 5:18pm
2 nominations
5.8/10
52%
54%
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