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August 2018, Govanhill Picture House

I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess was a one-off screening event, the first in Govanhill Picture House in over 50 years, presented by Queer Classics. The evening included a reading from academic Maria Fusco – an essay on developing the script for Ursula Mayer’s film Gonda, from her most recent 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.