Secret Thoughts of Angels :: Press Material
Photos
A selection of hi-res photos can be found in the Production Gallery
Directors Statement
"Secret Thoughts of Angel's was originally conceived as a prequel to a low budget feature I was trying to write. It struck me as I was cutting my teeth with screenwriting that I also wanted to make these films, but with no experience I'd better come up with a game plan. The first step was to make a short or two, see if I wasn't wasting my time dreaming of being a director when I might ultimately hate it. Luckily the experience was up there with the highlights in my life.
The inital concept I think rose from a small passage I'd read in Umberto Eco's 'Foucault's Pendulum' about an Alchemist who was obsessed by numbers and wrote a treatise on the ability to view other people's minds remotely. This idea lodged somewhere in the back of my brain. The low-budget film I developed revolved around a guy who's sister had gone missing having got mixed up with some dubious characters. So when I was looking for ideas for shorts, I realised that I could shoot Jess' story. The whole of SToA is effectively the back story to a feature film.
Having studied Religion at College, I found the whole concept of secret societies and secret knowledge very exciting, so it didn't take me long to fish out the idea of the mind reading alchemist and develop that into a extended philosophy involving Angels, Astrology and Time Travel. You could say, this film is quite 'diabolical'"
- Andy Coughlan, March 2006
Facts and Stuff
- Secret Thoughts of Angels is Andy Coughlan's first film.
- It cost approximately £2000 to make, most of which was spent on lighting.
- It was shot on weekends during May and June 2005.
- Post Production took ages as Andy wanted to use the project to gain as much hands on experience as he could of all aspects of the filmmaking process.
- The actor who plays the owner of the bookshop, John Powell, is in real life the manager of the bookshop in which he appears in the film.
- For more clues about what he and Dr Crabtree might be up to, look at the title of the book over Jess' right shoulder.
Script