There are few filmmakers working today, who are more committed to the inordinate possibilities of the cut and the transformative power of montage than Isiah Medina. Since he burst into the collective cinephile consciousness with his 2015 film 88:88, he has quietly been building a collection of idiosyncratic, formally arresting and uniquely current films, that move through mathematical theorems, ideological concepts and generic forms with the fleetness of thought in motion.

His latest film, Gangsterism, interpolates the gangster picture (exemplified by the likes of Howard Hawk's Scarface (1932)) with that most cinematographic of genres – the film about a film. Centred upon gangster cum filmmaker Clem (the excellent Mark Bacolcol) who is simultaneously collecting debts to fund his next film and attempting to track down who is leaking his work online, Gangsterism exists as much in this simple plot description, as it does in its perpetually oscillating rhythms and its dissections of the economics, moral codes (or lack thereof) and day to day realities of making cinema in 2025.

Irony laced missives and grandiloquent aphorisms abound but there's an unignorable depth and currency to their often po-faced delivery and how Medina interweaves these pronouncements on everything from the pitfalls of institutional funding to reevaluations of the western, into a larger exploration of his and our present.

The ICA is delighted to welcome Isiah Medina for an in-person Q&A following the UK Premiere of Gangsterism on Friday 20 February.