Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping (film)

• Bill Talen: he himself

Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping is a film by director and producer pair Dietmar Post and Lucía Palacios, shot between 2000 and 2001 in New York City (USA).

Content

The documentary follows Reverend Billy Talen Bill actually means and actor and performance artist, with his "shopping interventions of Stop Shopping " in New York, in cafeterias, Disney Stores and " evangelized " other public places of consumption where he. The opponents of globalization combines in his work the ideas of social and political change with different concepts of street theater. What Talen calls " entering an imaginary space", is for the police but only trespassers property of others, and so many actions Talens end up in jail. But the Reverend is convinced that social change starts with civil disobedience. Dietmar Post and Lucía Palacios have been watching the political theater makers in the tradition of Direct Cinema a year with her ​​camera.

Reviews

" The documentation is as raw, rough and uncomplicated as street theater this rebellious troops, completely without comment and conveys much of the lifestyle of the shrewd resisters What also heard that they sometimes find themselves a bit embarrassing -. An anarchist foreign body in everyday life the city, as if fallen from a wilder time. "

Awards

• 2003 - Melbourne Underground Film Festival (2nd Best Documentary: Reverend Billy )
• 2004 - Tarragona REC Film Festival ( Audience Award Best debut: Reverend Billy )