# animate! › Films › Save Me by Stuart Hilton › synopses

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Discovery terms: 1990s animation, hand-drawn animation, collage animation, live action and animation, everyday life, survival, news media, abstract animation, filmmaker, animation director

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**Save Me** a film by Stuart Hilton

1994, 6 min 10 sec

### 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.”

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