PAUL VESTER FILMOGRAPHY

1995	ABDUCTEES (11 mins) Animated short for Channel Four Television, UK - an animated documentary, using different visual styles, illustrating hypnotically recovered memories of people abducted by space aliens.
		Festival showings include: Telluride, Denver, Toronto, Hiroshima, Annecy, San Francisco, Sitges, Melbourne, Rio, New York, Berlin. Also shown at Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; British Film Institute package "Live Wires/Raw Drawings"; Film Forum, New York. Golden Gate Award, Animation and Computer Generated Imagery, San Francisco Film Festival (1996), 1st prize, Animation over 5 mins, Everyman Animation Festival, London (1995) 1st Prize, Sitges International Animation Festival, Spain 1996
1992	HEADS (2 mins) Computer animation for MTV's "Liquid Television" - a decorative piece featuring continuous metamorphosis.
		Screened at London Film Festival and as part of regional tour with The Film and Video Umbrella, UK; and as part of Rezfest, USA.
1987	PICNIC (3 mins) - based on material collected in Argentina, the USA and the Middle East.
		Festival showings include: Telluride, Venice, Los Angeles, Annecy, Stuttgart, Rio, Ottawa , Berlin. Also shown as part of the Arts Council of Great Britain Film Tour. Golden Gate Special Jury Award, Films Under 5 mins, San Francisco Film Festival (1989) 1st prize, Films Under 5 mins, LA International Animation Celebration (1989) 1st prize, Ottawa International Animation Festival (1988)
1983	ANIJAM (contributing director) Co-operative film for International Rocketship, Vancouver (supervising director Marv Newland) - an Exquisite Corpse piece involving artists from around the world.
		Festival screenings: Toronto, Portland, Telluride, Denver, Lucca, Oberhausen, Asolo, Hiroshima, Seattle, Annecy, Varna, Madrid, Stuttgart, Melbourne. Jury Prize: Toronto International Animation Festival (1984) 1st prize: Northwest Film and Video Festival, Portland, Oregon (1984) Best Animated Film, Asolo Film Festival, Asolo, Italy (1985)
1980	SUNBEAM (4 mins) - set to a song, "What's at the Top of a Sunbeam", and based on sketches, photographs and ideas formulated during a year-long trip to the USA.
		Festival showings include: Ottawa, Annecy, Hiroshima, Sidney, London, Holland. Two pieces of artwork, including title image and background, purchased by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, for its permanent collection. Special Jury Prize, Ottawa International Animation Festival (1980)
1972-74	MR TRIMBLE Short films for children for Yorkshire Television, UK.
1971	FOOTBALL FREAKS (7 mins) - experiments with sound and narrative fragments.
		Festival showings include: Annecy, Tokyo. Golden Dragon Award, Japan (1971)
1968	REPETITION (1 minute) - based on a short poem by Norman Mailer.
	ANIMA (1 minute) - experiments with narrative, sound and image, based on the Jungian concepts of Anima and Animus
		1st prize - National Student Film Festival (1968)