Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping

Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping

60 mins | Documentary | Aug. 1, 2002

Reverend Billy, a.k.a. Bill Talen, is an actor/performance artist and a leading figure within the anti-globalization movement. His work combines the ideas of social and political change with the means of theater arts to counteract our media-laden culture. The film follows the Reverend's "shopping interventions/actions" into cultural dead zones such as Starbucks, Disney and the New York University construction site at Poe House.

Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping

60 mins | Documentary | Aug. 1, 2002

Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping
Reverend Billy, a.k.a. Bill Talen, is an actor/performance artist and a leading figure within the anti-globalization movement. His work combines the ideas of social and political change with the means of theater arts to counteract our media-laden culture. The film follows the Reverend's "shopping interventions/actions" into cultural dead zones such as Starbucks, Disney and the New York University construction site at Poe House.
Producers
Original title Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping
Directors Dietmar Post
Writers

Cast

Reverend Billy

as Himself