Let’s watch and talk about films by women and nonbinary filmmakers! The Ruby's movie series, which we are calling The Glittering Cave, will serve as a platform for thinking about what it means to make and watch films with a gender-identity perspective.

For February's Glittering Cave we'll watch Sophie Fiennes 2017 documentary Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami, partly in honor of Black History Month but mostly just because Grace Jones is a larger-than-life icon! We'll peek behind the curtain with this film and discuss themes of celebrity personas, race and gender in the 80s, and anything else we discover!

If you'd like to catch up, we've watched: Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962), The Watermelon Woman (1996), The Love Witch (2016), and Shirkers (2019).

In order to talk about films, we’ll watch films regularly and devise novel ways to respond and spark discussion. Screenings could be linked by theme/question, or by maker. There may be guest visits and/or screening by local filmmakers. There may be an online blog, physical zine, or more slow-burning criticism/writing that honors what transpires at our meetings. The goal is to enlist multi-talented Rubies to learn something new about film as a community.