The word Legato in all its beauty. A film as a sensory experience of the fluid progression of life in continuous movement, without any suspension. A return to the cradle before the arrival of words.

Back in 2000, Anne-Marie Bouchard captured the diversity and avant-gardism of cinematic expression within the collective Vidéo Femmes with this atypical silent short film. Through influences of documentary, fiction, and essay, she connects us to the living, to its primal vibration, through her experimental cinema. The film directly links us to the life force coursing through a newborn, in the very experience of the birth of its senses. Images and sounds harmonized with its breath allow us to share in its learning of the outside world and the miracle of the emergence of existence.

A sensitive incursion by the filmmaker into the realm of the living, during the earliest hours of a baby's consciousness, where the blur reaches towards form, black and white transitions to color, and crackling gives way to clear sound.

Legato, a trigger for wonder at the grace of being alive.

Anne-Marie Tougas
Filmmaker