REVEREND BILLY AND THE CHURCH OF STOP SHOPPING
Dietmar Post | 2002 | Germany/USA/Spain | 90 min | DVD

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. 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 quotes as his heroes the civil rights, peace and labor movements.

George Cinemas - Thursday 10th July 7.30pm