COSTUME/CONSUME: OPENING NIGHT COSTUME PARTY

The annual horrors of the Halloween Bacchanal season are upon us! Millennium Film Workshop is glad to take part in the festivities, but we wish to offer a different type of Halloween, one that more accurately reflects the true spirit (and terrors) of the season...

MILLENNIUM FILM WORKSHOP PRESENTS: COSTUME / CONSUME Films, Fashions, and Installations in defiance of the Halloween Industrial Complex We present to you a selection of works, events, films, fashions, and installations in defiance of the Halloween Industrial Complex. We want to see a Halloween where the timeless ancient rituals of costumes, masks and expression are divorced from the machine of conspicuous consumption wrought by the capitalist holiday paradigm. Each year, Spirit Halloween Stores possess dead storefronts like reanimated corpses. Ugly, sexy costumes glorifying the police and military and cashing in on racial stereotypes and gender conformity are overproduced by cheap sweatshop labor and summarily discarded November 1st by the careless.…