our story

Offline was born one night in August, 2018. I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess was a one-off screening event in a B-listed, abandoned cinema building, with no plumbing, no electricity and, in fact, no wall along one half of the unit. Curated by Offline founder, Lydia Honeybone, then operating under the guise of Queer Classics. 

This event was the first screening in Govanhill Picture House since it had ceased to be a functioning cinema over 50 years ago. The evening included a reading from academic Maria Fusco – an essay on developing the script for Ursula Mayer’s film Gonda, from her book Give Up Art. This was followed by back-to-back screenings of Gonda, 2012, and the 1972 classic, Lucifer Rising by Kenneth Anger. The event culminated in a live 'sonic ritual' made in response to the films, performed by composer, Kim Moore. The name of the event and key thematics of intersectional ecofeminism, spectacle, ritual and technology were informed by Donna J. Haraway’s Cyborg Manifesto, 1991.

Despite the whole event running on a single extension cable (something that would become an ongoing theme), 150 brave souls attended the sold out screening. This overwhelming reception planted the seed of an idea to create a space dedicated to artists’ film and moving image. 

Soon after, Lydia would partner with artist, curator and experienced administrator, Shireen Taylor and formalise as a constituted group, then called Glasgow Artists’ Moving Image Studios (GAMIS), which gained charitable status in 2020.