IT'S TIME TO RECLAIM THE ECONOMY The economic crash of 2008 revealed not only the frailty and vulnerability of the economic system, it also showed the false basis that the growth economy is built on – the financial bubble grows bigger and crashes bigger, but we don't seem to be getting any happier. To the contrary, we suffer from greater job insecurity and environmental chaos threatens. The prescription from the mainstream economists is more growth – but is this just taking more of what ails us? Has growth become uneconomic? Is there another way? This film is part of an ongoing project to document the rise of a new movement – calling not for more economic growth, but LESS. The degrowth movement, or "mouvement por le decroissance", argues that through a voluntary reduction of the economy we can work less, consume less and live better, fuller lives. Many have been pointing out that our current economic system is leading us to an environmental and social catastrophe. "Life After Growth" begins to point to the people and communities who are looking for ways out. These are the pioneers who are rethinking the role of economics in our lives, and are engaging in different types of economic activity, right now. The D word is still taboo in many circles – politicians are loath to go against the growth orthodoxy that our society is based on. But everywhere people are engaging in degrowth type activity - the beginning of a wave that is laying the groundwork for a post-capitalist future... Because it's not the size of the economy that counts, it's how you use it!

A wandering gaze on a boreal landscape. The video Mouvances explores the representation of space as an experiential place. Observation, contemplation, and also desire of closeness. The landscape by alterating, metamorphoses itself as a surface of creation and manipulation.

A personal interpretation of William Burroughs' novel.

Naoko-san: Immigration story in three acts is about the importance of heritage and belonging. In this short film, emerging Vancouver filmmaker Rika Moorhouse explores the blurred narrative of her mother's immigration story through metaphor, geography and music. Naoko moved to Canada from Japan in 1979.

New Atlantis is the second episode in a series of narrative fragments about haptic visuality and presence in Vancouver. In them I am playing with embodied contact with objects and living creatures that can occur outside fixed clichés of vision, touch and speech. This film is about viral real-estate speculation, telepathy to serve as a medium for communication between species and ephemeral curses that re-set the destabilized animals and landscape on this condo-crane-riddled coastline. This film soundtrack has been created with the lightbulb filament recordings of Montreal sound artist Anne-Francoise Jacques.