Film Quarterly editor-in-chief B. Ruby Rich recently described our critical moment as “an unprecedented opportunity to reconfigure systems of cinematic meaning...[T]he groundswell of political will must be directed toward reestablishing a society with meaningful representation, justice, and governance for all.” She celebrates images that move beyond individualism toward “representations of social action, modes of organizing, cooperation, or collaboration...to remind the public of the joy of organizing, the libidinal energy of collective action, the giddiness of feeling that the future of the planet, or at least the neighborhood, is at stake.” Foregrounding communal vitality and audiovisual media experience, I focus my writing and teaching on recalibrating perception and exploring how film and media might transform our world for the better. I am deeply invested in how screens might become a site around which individuals and communities grow more reflective and empathetic, such that reflecting together upon audiovisual media becomes a way of collaboratively building trust, a way of exercising vulnerability collectively toward transformation for the stronger, braver, and more compassionate.