The Stub

Latest Cork short is high on action July 16, 2008

Described as a “martial arts time travel fantasy’, ‘Elapse’ was created by Corkman Thomas O Meara who admits he has always held an interest in time travel and, indeed, in kung fu. The film also has a uniquely Irish feel to it as it also deals with Celtic mythology. Filming took place in several locations including the Currabinny Woods, and even Tom’s own garden, using an Everio hard disk drive camcorder. In typical low-budget (or possibly no budget) style, there were often times when the mini crew had to manage without a cameraman.

As the martial arts aspect of ‘Elapse’ was of high importance, each technique was performed anywhere between 5 and 30 times to achieve the desired effect. Altogether the fight scenes took about 30 hours to complete and resulted in plenty bruising…followed by another 30-ish hours of editing and sfx applications!

Thomas had help in the form of the following people: Kevin Cummins (the Celt called Dearg Lugh), Dave Heath (the templer called Jaque de le Mer), John the Book (the strange element being called Zenith), Aidin Lilly (the mysterious monk), and Tracey (the mad pan battering girlfriend of kevin cummins). Tom himself played the immortal Scot and the burglar.

So..if you want an idea of what people are creating in their gardens these days..here’s a mini trailer: