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Visiting Artist Series

Isiah Medina

EVENT LOCATION:
NSCAD Academy Building, Room A208

EVENT DATE & TIME
March 6, 2026 11:00 am

Artist Statement

Isiah Medina is a picturemaker in the picturemaking business. He believes cinema can do the work of philosophy but without language. In the same way Plato was inspired by the mathematics of his time and would include it in his dialogues, I can use the cinematic cut to present set-theoretical ideas of infinity as a counterpoint within filmic experiments and genre exercises, inventing new forms of movie magic.

This talk is presented as part of NSCAD’s Visiting Artist program, supported by the Daglish Family Foundation Visiting Artist Fund.

About the Artist

Isiah Medina currently lives in Toronto, where he directs and produces films with his company Quantity Cinema. His feature films include 88:88 (2015), Inventing the Future (2020), Night is Limpid (2022), He Thought He Died (2023), and Gangsterism (2025). His work has played at Locarno Film Festival, TIFF, New York Film Festival, Jeonju International Film Festival, and YouTube. He is most recently the subject of the retrospective “Beginning from Beginning Again: The Cinema of Isiah Medina” at ICA London. His article, “Cut is a Form of Thinking,” was published in the December 2025 issue of the political philosophy journal Crisis and Critique.