Jasmina Metwaly is a Cairo-Berlin-based artist and filmmaker, born to a Polish mother and an Egyptian father. She is a member of the Mosireen collective and the media archive 858.ma. Working across film, video, and drawing, her practice is rooted in collaboration, archival research, and process-based forms that explore memory, storytelling, and the shifting boundaries between documentation and fiction. Her work has been shown internationally, including at Townhouse Gallery in Cairo, IFFR, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, and Berlinale Forum Expanded. She collaborated closely with filmmaker Philip Rizk from 2010 to 2015, and their film Out on the Street was presented at the 56th Venice Biennale and MoMA. She was an artist in residence at DAAD in Berlin in 2017, received the Mophradat Consortium Commissions grant in 2019/2020, and in 2020/2021 was awarded the Berlin Senate research grant with Kamila Metwaly for Voice of the Wind is Not a Metaphor. In 2022, she was a fellow at Villa Romana. Since 2024, she has been a PhD candidate at the Academy of Art in Szczecin, Poland.

Philip Rizk is a filmmaker and writer from Cairo currently living in Berlin. In his films, he experiments with methods of “making the habitual strange.” In Out on the Street (2015) he uses performance, in his found footage films Mapping Lessons (2020) and Terror Tales (2024) he experiments with montage. Along with the filmmaker Baya Medhaffer, Rizk is developing the upcoming Majliss Fanon, a film programme around Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth. He is also editor of the forthcoming book Neocolonialism and its Dismantling, which puts Fanon’s final book in conversation with the thawrat of the Arabic-speaking region over the past 15 years.