Saint of sin

Saint of Sin is a short film co-directed from a place of genuine personal conviction. The concept grew out of a frustration that many people carry quietly, the experience of being judged by deeply religious individuals for not measuring up to a certain standard of devotion, while those same individuals go unexamined for their own contradictions. The film set out to hold a mirror up to that hypocrisy, exploring the gap between the image of righteousness and the reality behind it. For me, the subject was not purely observational. Growing up in a religious family came with its own weight of guilt and expectation, and Saint of Sin became a way of processing and articulating something that had been difficult to name for a long time. Co-directing the film allowed that personal perspective to be shaped into something larger and more universal, a story that speaks to anyone who has felt the sting of judgment from institutions or individuals that present themselves as morally unimpeachable. It is one of the projects where the line between filmmaker and subject felt the thinnest, and that closeness is what gave it its edge.

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