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Stephen's CV Writings 1997- Wrote feature length screenplay, Heroes. A western centering on the themes of revenge and destiny, it tells of a madman holding a whole town to ransom and the heroes who must stop him. 1998- SUMMER- Wrote feaure length screenplay, The Magician. A psychological drama centering on the themes of revenge and power, it tells of a small town revisited by a powerful magician who grew up there, the sheriff who wants him dead, and the young man caught in the middle. CHRISTMAS- Wrote feature length screenplay, Passion. A retelling of Michael Mann's Heat, it has similiar themes but concentrates more on the issues of loneliness and isolation. 1999- SPRING 1- Wrote short screenplay Admonition, to be shot immediately after writing. Based on a story by Stephen and Ailish Corcoran, it deals with the themes of good and evil and the necessary unification of both in modern man. SPRING 2- Wrote full length play Black Flowers Blossom for a creative writing project in his English course. It deals with the issues of domestic violence (directed at the husband) and the role of the past in the present. Stephen received an A+ for his work. SUMMER 1- Wrote short screenplay Cassandra, to be filmed immediately after writing, although the project ultimately fell through. It deals with a man capable of seeing the future and his bizarre and confusing visions of a murder which he himself may actually commit, it also deals with lonlieness. SUMMER 2- Wrote Justification, a short screenplay to be filmed directly after writing in a two week summer school at DLIADT. A religious comedy, it tells of a man who has died and must justify his existence to St. Peter in 5 minutes or he won't be allowed to enter heaven. SUMMER 3- Wrote what he considers to be his masterpiece, the epic and disturbing Paradise Lost. An urban drama, it deals with five different yet connected stories and several branches of each one. During its sweep, it takes in love, religion, art, crime, the nature of being, violence, destiny and many, many other philosophical and non-philosophical issues. It has disturbed and frightened, as well as intrigued and fascinated, all of its readers to date. CHRISTMAS- Compiled a series of poems (14 in all) in a book called Somehow I Got Inside Me, which had been written over a six year period. Although presenting no conherent theme or expression, they are all troubled and essentially pessimistic mediations on whatever their chosen subject may be (love, religion, destiny etc). 2000-SUMMER 1- Wrote feature length screenplay, Soul. Telling of a man whose life is turned upsidedown by an unknown party and who decends into paranoia and suspicion, the story also branches into religion, particularly the Apocalypse and Satan. Regarded by all those who have read it as Stephen's best work. SUMMER 2- Wrote short screenplay, John Keats' La Belle Dame Sans Merci, an adaptation of the poem. It concentrates on the modern critical interpretation that man gives woman the power to destroy him and that she is simply a passive bystander im what is essentially a form of suicide. AUTUMN 1- Wrote short screenplay The Gates of Paradise as part of his film course in DLIADT, it was filmed immediately after writing. Telling of a young man who meets a mysterious girl in a nightclub toilet, the film deals with the issue of lust as a destroyer of man and Satan's prominence in the world today. AUTUMN 2- Wrote short screenplay The Dream as part of his film course. Dealing with a young man who has a disturbing dream, it relates issues of past, present and future and how all are dead in modern man. Rejected as a project by the college. CHRISTMAS 1- Wrote dialogue for the short film The Verisimilitude of All Literary Endeavours. Not a typical screenplay insofar as it consisted only of dialogue (none of which Stephen wrote, but instead created by combining sentances from his favourite literary works). The film was made immediately after writing and deals with a mans obsession with literture and how he is viewed by society. CHRISTMAS 2- Wrote short screenplay The Death of the Intellect for DLIADT. Telling of a film student pitching his film, the work deals with the issues of high and low art and the rejection of high art for cheap thrills. The project was rejected by the college. 2003 - Summer: Wrote a 245 page epic entitled Passion? Stephen wrote it in the style of Paradsie Lost, with five central characters who are all connected in some way. The film is highly autobiographical in its events, but also deals with such issues as drug addiction, homelessness, corrupt politics, blindness, love, art, religion and philosophy. Epic in both scope and nature, the film has both shocked and horrified its readers. As disturbing as it is real, as dangerous as it is true and as disturbing as it is apocalyptic, Stephen has said it was the hardest thing he has ever had to write. Summer: Produced, directed and edited Cassandra, the long awaited follow up to Admonition. |
| In addition: -Stephen has worked in the IFC archives and the RIA library. -completed a two week summer school in DLIADT -written several highly praised critical papers on specific films -worked as a film critic for three magazines -has been enmployed by St. Pat's on numerous occasions to film live shows and ceremonies -is currently the film critic for an internet magazine - has worked as a first year English tutor in St Pat's and is still working in the same position in NUI Maynooth (his second year in the job) - has had a paper published in an academic journal |
