MMoCA Cinema • Gangsterism

Overview

MMoCA Cinema • Gangsterism
Thursday, August 13, 8:30pm
Gangsterism | Isaiah Medina | Canada | 2025 | 84 minutes

As he mulls over the budget for his new film, director-gangster Clem (Mark Bacolcol) sends his artist cronies after an old comrade rumoured to be a leaker. Selected as the Closing Night Feature at the 2026 Onion City Experimental Film Festival (Chicago).

“It is truly impressive how [Gangsterism] manages to both absorb and organize our anxieties—not simply acknowledging how racism or genocide infects us as social beings, but how blatantly it limits our capacity to engage with art and culture, and this is by design. —Saffron Maeve, curator of Contours Film Series, Toronto

“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. [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.” ―Daniel Turner, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

About MMoCA Cinema

MMoCA Cinema is a program of MMoCA’s Education Department and is curated by James Kreul. MMoCA’s film programming is generously funded by maiahaus, Venture Investors, LLC, and a gift from an anonymous donor.