The film

Christmas 1987. Ralph gets a camcorder from his parents. The 12-year-old wastes no time in filming his adventures with his best friend and recording his favourite TV shows. He is too excited to notice that he is erasing his parents’ wedding video... From this incongruous superposition of images springs out a white-hot mix of images that juxtapose erotic alien invasions with aerobics lessons in fluorescent tights and completely improbable commercials.

Caution: Unidentified Cinematic Object! The incomparable VHYES is a hilarious curiosity that fetishisticly mimics the weirdest tropes of the 80s with a great sense of humour. References and Easter eggs abound in this frantic mashup shot on VHS and Betacam. Giggles meet kaleidoscopic oddities in this multifaceted film that always remains immediately gratifying.

The director

Son of Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins, Jack Henry Robbins (1989) graduated from the University of Southern California in 2011. At 24, he was the youngest director of an episode produced by Comedy Central. He then worked on many projects (music videos, documentaries, short films), and made OPENING NIGHT (2015) and GHOSTMATES (2016). VHYES is his third feature. He is currently working on a comedy thriller centred on a cult.

Selected filmography

2015 – OPENING NIGHT
2016 – GHOSTMATES
2017 – HOT WINTER: A FILM BY DICK PIERRE (short)