[This is a Virtual Ruby* event taking place over Zoom. Nonmembers are welcome to join; please donate if you are able!]

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.

In light of the shelter-in-place and solidarity with our community's health, we've taken The Glittering Cave online. For TGC #7, we'll continue to look at ill-fated love—brought up last meeting with Joanna Hogg’s “The Souvenir”—with Atlantics (2019), the gothic romance set in Dakar, Senegal (available to stream on Netflix). The film was directed by Mati Diop, the first black woman to direct a film in competition at the Cannes film festival. After watching the film on our own, we'll have a virtual discussion. Join the Zoom meeting here: https://zoom.us/j/502773099?pwd=OVAva0M1RUh3elR3QjM4RUEzNmZ5dz09. Password will be sent to you when you register.

If you'd like to catch up, we've watched:

• Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962)

• The Watermelon Woman (1996)

• The Love Witch (2016)

• Shirkers (2019)

• Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami (2017)

• The Souvenir (2019)

In order to talk about films, we’ll watch them 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.