A free film from the argos collection on your screen every month. During the first half of 2026, argos TV unfolds alongside our exhibition Becoming Ancestors.

This work is an exploration of inherited images, memories, and cultural frameworks that continue to shape individuals even when they seek rupture or distance. By examining how religious, social, and political images survive within bodies and gestures, the film echoes the exhibition’s broader questions about ancestrality: how connections to the past are fragmented, repressed, or transformed, and how these traces might become a starting point for reflection, dialogue, and the imagining of different futures

Amélie Derlon Cordina, SAINTS’GAME (2017)

The film opens with imagery inspired by Christian icons, reflecting the artist’s long-standing interest in religious representation. Actors embody saint-like figures while Amélie Derlon Cordina questions them about their desire to distance themselves from their cultural and religious origins. Set against the 20th-century belief in the “death of God” and the rise of iconoclastic art, the film suggests that questions of faith, identity, and belonging remain unresolved.

Each character is an immigrant – a Palestinian, a Daghestani, an Icelander, and a Frenchman – coming from distinct cultural and religious backgrounds, not all of them Christian. Through rehearsals, conversations, and performances, the film explores their attempts to separate from their pasts while acknowledging that memory, trauma, and belief persist through images and gestures. Shot in Brussels, the film mirrors the city’s multicultural reality, using displacement as both a subject and a condition of the work itself.