My Saints

Following JeanPierre Gorin and other New Wave filmmakers Moyra Daveys transparency allows us to explore the space between the text and the writers construction of the narrative between text and reader between word and interpretation The film My Saints is a collective portrait of friends and family as they interpret a passage from Genets journalin which he watches a friend frantically search for money that he stoleand elaborate their own experiences of deception Daveys project is one in which a text becomes a source for delving into a rigorous scrutiny of ones self