The bubble and other stories from Montréal I · photograph · 2011

In November 2011, on the two-month anniversary of the Occupy movement, police arrest over 100 protestors in New York, the mayor apologises to peaceful protestors in Seattle after police use pepper spray and a returned veteran from Iraq is injured in California when police shoot him with rubber bullets. In Montréal, they have the bubble.

The bubble and other stories from Montréal II · photograph · 2011

The bubble and other stories from Montréal XI · photograph · 2011

The bubble and other stories from Montréal is a celebration of people who are trying to change the world and a portrait of the everydayness and practicalities of people living together in a protest environment. A film shot entirely at night follows relationships built across people from varying backgrounds through the stories they tell and the actions they share.

The bubble and other stories from Montréal IV · photograph · 2011

The bubble and other stories from Montréal XIV · photograph · 2011

The Occupiers strengthen the unity of the movement by singing and dancing together and sharing in the making of beautiful bubbles, using only the wind and a simple silken cloth that envelops their bodies.

Together they call on the world to eliminate economic inequality and to redistribute resources from the 1% for everyone to share.

“We are the 99%.”