Shock Head Soul - trailer

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Channel: International Film Festival Rotterdam – IFFR · 2013 · Film & Animation

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Directed by Simon Pummell (United Kingdom, Netherlands, 2011). Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2012.

A mixture of documentary and fiction film about Daniel Paul Schreber, who wrote a famous autobiography about his psychiatric past, Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken (1903). Pummel interlaced book fragments with animation and interviews with modern psychoanalysts to produce a cinematic approximation of a psychosis.

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