Rob VanAlkemade's guest appearances

Rob VanAlkemade

KUCI: Film School

Spoiler Alert Radio

Center for Entertainment, Media & Culture

James White

John Sayles

Ruben Ostlund

Bill Plympton

Sean Baker

Nicholas Britell

Errol Morris

Margaret Brown

Turner Ross

Skye Fitzgerald

Pacho Velez

Jon Alpert

John Adams

Tomm Moore

Andy Warhol

OwlTail

Rob was an interviewer and videographer for Steven Spielberg's Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation while earning an MA in Media Studies from the New School for Social Research.  Rob’s short film Preacher With An Unknown God won a Sundance Jury Award.  Rob directed the Morgan Spurlock produced theatrical feature What Would Jesus Buy, about saving Christmas from the Shopocalypse.  Rob has since been a director, producer, cinematographer, sound recordist and editor on a variety of documentary and broadcast productions on films including: Burning Man: Beyond Black Rock, Freakonomics, and more recently, Carol Channing: Larger Than Life.  Rob is currently working on his feature documentary Training for the Apocalypse, winner of a Pacific Pioneer Grant, which is about the journeys of survivalists, truth-seekers and prophets united in their preparations for global cataclysm and the near-extinction of humanity as they struggle to make sense of the world they live in now.

<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1768543" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rob</a> was an interviewer and videographer for <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000229" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Steven Spielberg's</a> <a href="http://dornsife.usc.edu/vhi" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation</a> while earning an MA in Media Studies from the <a href="http://www.newschool.edu/nssr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">New School for Social Research</a>.  <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1768543" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rob’s</a> short film <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0484879" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Preacher With An Unknown God</a> won a Sundance Jury Award.  <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1768543" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rob</a> directed the <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1041597" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Morgan Spurlock</a> produced theatrical feature <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0939681" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">What Would Jesus Buy</a>, about saving Christmas from the Shopocalypse.  <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1768543" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rob</a> has since been a director, producer, cinematographer, sound recordist and editor on a variety of documentary and broadcast productions on films including: <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435611" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Burning Man: Beyond Black Rock</a>, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1152822" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Freakonomics</a>, and more recently, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1737122" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Carol Channing: Larger Than Life</a>.  <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1768543" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rob</a> is currently working on his feature documentary <a href="http://finaltraining.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Training for the Apocalypse</a>, winner of a <a href="http://www.pacificpioneerfund.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pacific Pioneer Grant</a>, which is about the journeys of survivalists, truth-seekers and prophets united in their preparations for global cataclysm and the near-extinction of humanity as they struggle to make sense of the world they live in now.

Rob VanAlkemade - Cinematographer, Director, Editor 

Rob VanAlkemade / Director / WHAT WOULD JESUS BUY? / Spring 2010

Savitri D

An interview with Rob VanAlkemade the director of What Would Jesus Buy? and Savitri Durkee the Director of the Church of Stop Shopping (as well as the artist-wife of Reverend Billy. What Would Jesus Buy? follows Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir as they go on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from the Shopocalypse: the end of mankind from consumerism, over-consumption and the fires of eternal debt. Bill Talen (aka Reverend Billy) was a lost idealist who hitchhiked to New York City only to find that Times Square was becoming a mall. Spurred on by the loss of his neighborhood and inspired by the sidewalk preachers around him, Bill bought a collar to match his white caterer's jacket, bleached his hair and became the Reverend Billy of the Church of Stop Shopping. Since 1999, Reverend Billy has gone from being a lone preacher with a portable pulpit preaching on subways, to the leader of a congregation and a movement whose numbers are well into the thousands.

What Would Jesus Buy? / Rob VanAlkemade and Savitri D Interview