PREACHER WITH AN UNKNOWN GOD

Synopsis

Compelled to somehow cover the 2004 political season, but finding himself profoundly alienated with politics, protests, and even much of the filmmaking process, filmmaker Rob VanAlkemade was eventually seduced, hesitantly, into living on a 50 year old bus with Reverend Billy and The Church of Stop Shopping for a ten day "Stop Big Boxes" tour of California.
The crew miraculously clocked over 1,000 miles and consumed over 100 gallons of diesel, ("We burned fuel to get here today, children", says Billy, "we're all sinners, it's complicated...") with no vehicular mishaps.
The Church conducted cash register exorcisms, (resulting in LA County jail time for the Reverend,) parking lot revivals, and hypnotizing sermons, where the Reverend occasionally lost consciousness by absorbing the evil living inside congregant's credit cards.
The documentary concludes in New York City shortly after the Republican National Convention, when Billy is arrested in Times Square on Stop Shopping Day after pleading with the public to "be creative" and "slow down the shopping however you can."
Many of these bombastic theatrical performances suddenly took a turn into the undeniably spiritual, and the jaded filmmaker began to catch himself grinning, and completely unable to locate the alienation he had been clinging to.