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**Save Me** a film by Stuart Hilton

[Stuart Hilton](http://www.stuarthilton.com)

1994, 6 min 10 sec

[Film / embedded media](https://player.vimeo.com/video/9647785)

![Save Me, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/saveme01.jpg)

### animate! synopsis

The found sounds of newstime as the domestic meets disaster and survives. Collage craziness in this abstract exploration of the perils and pleasures of being and staying alive.

### long synopsis

An abstract film that attempts to connect to the real experience of everyday life through the partial disclosure of a fantastic event. The event should have involved certain death but there was a miraculous escape. Then, after a period of post-survival triumphant euphoria there was an interview.

Day to day mystical, trivial and important activity is represened using reoccuring symbolic triggers and aural.

“Something has happened and I missed it. I saw the headlines though, so I could probaby guess the rest. I wonder if I’ll guess correctly. I can guess the rest. I wonder if I guessed correctly.”

### key credits

**director**
Stuart Hilton

### Stuart Hilton

### a film by Stuart Hilton

### direction

**director**
Stuart Hilton

### cast in picture

**Contributing eye persons**
Michele Hilton
Damian Gascoigne
Molly Okell
Mark Shepherd

**Contributing ear persons**
Sharon Smith
Jonathon Hodgson
John Parry
Sarah Cox

### support

**special thanks**
Anne and Nick, Speedy Films, Pete Wester, Z Animation, G+M Productions, Soho Images

**primary funding**
Arts Council/Channel Four Animate! award

© Stuart Hilton 1994

[![Save Me, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/saveme01.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/saveme01.jpg)

*click on image for full size still*

### technical

#### process summary

Found messages, doodles and drawings are animated and combined with recycled live action taken from TV or shot on video. Similarly , the sound was taken fromthe ordinary audio environment – rooms, streets, TV and radio etc.

### master copy format

**format**
35mm

**colour or black & white**
colour

### video distribution format

**video format**
BetaSP

**screen aspect ratio**
4:3

**video standard**
PAL

**sound type**
stereo

### distributor

LUX
[info@lux.org.uk](mailto:info@lux.org.uk)
+44 (0)20 7503 3980
[www.lux.org.uk](http://www.lux.org.uk/)

**Save Me** film, stills and other materials © Stuart Hilton 1994