Yves Yersin (4 October 1942 – 15 November 2018) was a Swiss
film director. His film ''
Les petites fugues'' competed in the
Un Certain Regard
(, meaning 'a certain glance') is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's official selection. It is run at the Debussy, parallel to the competition for the . This section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob.
The section presents 20 films w ...
section at the
1979 Cannes Film Festival.
Biography
Yersin studied photography at the Center Vocational de
Vevey
Vevey (; frp, Vevê; german: label=former German, Vivis) is a town in Switzerland in the canton of Vaud, on the north shore of Lake Geneva, near Lausanne. The German name Vivis is no longer commonly used.
It was the seat of the district of ...
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
The Swiss national exposition of 1964 (French: ''Exposition nationale suisse de 1964''), usually shortened to Expo 64, was a world's fair held in Lausanne, more specifically in Vidy and the neighbouring Vallée de la Jeunesse, between 30 April and ...
, 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)
References
External links
*
Yves Yersinat th
Swiss Film Directory
1942 births
2018 deaths
Swiss film directors
Swiss screenwriters
Male screenwriters
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