Yolande Brener

Brener and Imara fill their time with frenetic activity at home during the Corona pandemic. As lockdown rules are eased they brave it and go outside. It’s scary though, and they return rapidly to the virtual cocoon they’ve become used to. Beyond the immediate time-frame in which it’s set, Y&I Go Outside speaks to the increasing recession of human life from nature to the artificial and also questions what is more real, an unconnected ‘natural’ life, or connectedness via the virtual.

Three blondes from another planet land on earth to conduct research into romantic love

A nearly wordless visual narrative intercuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones. A woman, perhaps the Madonna, brings forth her baby to a crowd of intrusive paparazzi; she tries to flee them. Two men who are lovers marry and are arrested by the powers that be. The men are mocked and pilloried, tarred, feathered, and beaten. Loose in this contemporary world of electrical-power transmission lines is also Jesus. The elements, particularly fire and water, content with political power, which is intolerant and murderous.

Albert et ses hommes, de sinistres malfrats, sont les habitués du « Hollandais », un restaurant huppé tenu par Richard, un cuisinier français. Un soir, Georgina, l'épouse de l'odieux gangster, remarque un client solitaire et taciturne qui mange, le nez plongé dans ses livres. Fascinée, elle ne tarde pas à se donner à lui. L'homme est en réalité un libraire. Bénéficiant de la complicité du cuisinier, les deux amants trouvent régulièrement refuge dans les toilettes, les réserves ou encore la cuisine du restaurant. Lorsqu'Albert découvre enfin l'infidélité de Georgina, il entre dans une rage folle. Sa réaction est d'une rare violence…

Brener and Imara fill their time with frenetic activity at home during the Corona pandemic. As lockdown rules are eased they brave it and go outside. It’s scary though, and they return rapidly to the virtual cocoon they’ve become used to. Beyond the immediate time-frame in which it’s set, Y&I Go Outside speaks to the increasing recession of human life from nature to the artificial and also questions what is more real, an unconnected ‘natural’ life, or connectedness via the virtual.

Three blondes from another planet land on earth to conduct research into romantic love