Community Meal

To celebrate the Scottish premiere of Strange Evidence, a new film by artist Michelle Williams Gamaker, Offline is hosting a free community meal and we would love you to come along. 

Drop in between 2pm and 4pm on Saturday 6 June to share a table with members of your local community and catch a viewing of the film before or after the meal.  

Strange Evidence is a new 30 minute film from Michelle Williams Gamaker exploring the hidden world of 1930s film star Merle Oberon. Concealing her mixed heritage to pass as white, Oberon had a hugely successful career in Hollywood until her death in 1979. The film is a genre-bending Body Horror/Film Noir. Alternating between colour and black and white worlds, Williams Gamaker revisits the cosmetic procedures Merle underwent to maintain this illusion, and speculatively offers the star psychoanalysis to unpack her self-censorship (what the artist calls Fictional Healing). The project sensitively explores racial stigma, trauma and complex decisions shaped by prejudice and restrictive labour conditions, which still impacts people today.

Much of Williams Gamaker’s work focused on the idea of ‘fictional activism’: the restoration of marginalised brown characters as central figures, who return in her works as vocal brown protagonists challenging the fictional injustices to which they have been historically consigned. 

Food served will be vegan, nut free and gluten free. 

Access info:

Strange Evidence will be screened in English with English subtitles and plays every 35 minutes. 

Everyone is welcome.

When: 2-4pm, Saturday 6th June

Where: Offline Cinema, 108C Niddrie Road

Community Access Pot: We have funding to cover childcare and travel costs to help people attend this event. Please contact leonie@offline-glasgow.org for more details.

The film is screening Monday - Sunday, 11am - 6pm from the 5th to the 21st June as part of Glasgow International: Festival of Contemporary Art 2026.