# animate! › Films › Salvage by John Parry › synopses

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Discovery terms: 1990s animation, collage animation, advertising, reuse, abstract animation, visual music, filmmaker, animation director

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**Salvage** a film by John Parry

1998, 4 min 11 sec

### animate! synopsis

*You’d be crazy for feeling so lonely*… From scrapbook bodies to outlines filled with light, there’s collage in the chaos and dance tunes in the abstract visual music. Take two…

### long synopsis

Commercial animation by-products were collected over five years. As a cathartic process, the rejected was reclaimed, and then rejected, finally.

The resulting material was compiled and edited in post production to make a five minute film. The context was to use the same production values as advertising material. So it is glossy, colourful and eternally shallow.

**Salvage** film, stills and other materials © John Parry 1998