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.
Writer/Director: Simon Pummell
Executive Producers: Janine Marmot, Keith Griffiths and Femke Wolting
Partners: Wellcome Institute, in partnership with Submarine (The Netherlands)
Status: in production