A father plays with his son, a man smokes a cigarette, another watches television or reads a book on his phone. Isiah Medina begins his second feature in these moments of relative simplicity, glimpses of free time in action, before diving headlong into another radical work of intellectual montage.

From think tank discussions on utopian transport policies to a history and analysis of neo-liberalism and its shortcomings, Inventing the Future is a work of perpetual movement, one that, much like cinema itself, seems to be accelerating toward a future it's still defining.