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ZU SEHEN AM
Di, 25.11. - 20.45 Uhr im Thalia
Mi, 26.11. - 21.30 Uhr im Savoy
So, 30.11. - 19.00 Uhr im Thalia
(Filmemacher + Reverend
am Sonntag anwesend!)
Im Vergleich zu Reverend Billy ist Michael Moore ein
blutiger Anfänger.
Reverend Billy, Performance Künstler Bill Talen,
hat in New York eine ganze Gemeinde und gleichzeitig
auch Gospel Chor, die Church of Stop Shopping, um sich
geschart. Im Stil von Flash Mobs nehmen sie Disney und
Starbucks Läden in ihr Visier, kreuzigen Mickey
Mouse und kämpfen gegen Globalisierung und Konsumterror.
Verhaftungen sind an der Tagesordnung. Im Kampf für
eine lebenswertere Zukunft in ihrer Nachbarschaft haben
sie Erfolg.
Zum Beispiel zwingen sie die Stadt New York das Edgar
Allan Poe- Haus (Der Rabe) zu erhalten.
Zur Homepage: http://revbilly.com
>> English
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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