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Press Quotes:
The most hilarious and pointed political theater in New York."
New York Times "The Messiah of Stop Shopping."
El País, Spain "Like Michael Moore, Talen puts himself on the line, exposing corporate
pomposity wherever he finds it."
San Francisco Independent Film Festival "Highly entertaining."
Boston Globe
"Which American TV will have the guts to show this film?"
Albert Maysles, Documentary Filmmaker, New York
| Plot Outline:
| Reverend Billy, a.k.a. Bill Talen, is an actor/performance artist and a leading figure in the anti-globalization movement. His work combines the forces of social and political change with the means of theater arts to counteract our media culture. His artistic and political work is influenced by various concepts of "street theater." His disruptions or "shopping interventions" in public spaces are in the tradition of the Living Theater, José Bové, Lenny Bruce, The Yippies. New York Times theater critic Jonathan Kalb calls his work "the most hilarious and pointed political theater in New York, something that has to be done in the risky environment of the street." The actions/performances inside and outside of Starbucks coffee shops and Disney stores often end with the Reverend being arrested. He calls it stepping into somebody's imagined box. The police call it illegal trespassing. The Reverend claims that social change always begins with civil disobedience and includes as his heroes the civil rights, peace and labor movements. The film follows the Reverend's "shopping interventions/actions" into cultural dead zones within the island of Manhattan such as Starbucks, Disney and the New York University construction site at the Edgar Allan Poe House.
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Further Information:
Genre: Documentary
Runtime: 60 Minutes + 30 Minutes Bonus Footage
Directed by Dietmar Post and Lucia Palacios
Release: GOK-DV-6037
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Reverend Billy and the Church Of Stop Shopping