Hey Lou!

Footsteps in a rocky desert. Human shadows cast upon the ground. A bedridden woman suffering in the twilight of her life. A feverish birth in a delivery room. In just a few modest shots, the film’s unexpected intertwining of life and death—stark contrasts between shadow and light, moaning and breathing—poignantly reveal and record the essence of our humanity. John Blouin’s Hey Lou! is part of the 2014 edition of the 5 Shorts Project, created by the National Film Board of Canada and produced in conjunction with Spirafilm, a Quebec cooperative dedicated to independent cinema.