Yves Yersin

Yves Yersin (4 October 1942 15 November 2018) was a Swiss film director.[1] His film Les petites fugues competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.[2]

Yves Yersin
Born4 October 1942
Lausanne, Switzerland
Died15 November 2018(2018-11-15) (aged 76)
Baulmes, Switzerland
NationalitySwiss
OccupationFilm director
Years active1968-1979

Biography

Yersin studied photography at the Center Vocational de Vevey from 1959 to 1961, and received a Federal Certificate of Capacity. He began advertising photography in 1962 and trained as a cameraman from 1963 to 1964.

While at the Expo 64, Yersin assisted René Crux during the Polyvision slideshow.

Yersin joined the Fondation du Groupe 5 with Alain Tanner, Jean-Louis Roy, Michel Soutter, and Jean-Jacques Lagrange in 1971.

Filmography

  • Swiss Made (1968)
  • Quatre d'entre elles (1968)
  • Die letzten Heimposamenter (1974)
  • Les petites fugues (1979)
  • Tableau Noir (2013)[3]

References

  1. Morto il regista Yves Yersin (in Italian)
  2. "Festival de Cannes: Les petites fugues". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 25 May 2009.
  3. "Yves Yersin, réalisateur des "Petites Fugues", est décédé". RTS (in French). 18 November 2018.
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