Films : Save Me : all
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
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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
+44 (0)20 7503 3980
www.lux.org.uk
