Out on the Street (2015, 71’) -
برة في الشارع
9 April 2026, 7pm
Join artists Jasmina Metwaly and Philip Rizk for a rare screening of their co-directed film برة في الشارع - Out on the Street (2015, 71’), to mark the recent fifteenth anniversary of ثورة 25 يناير , the January 25 Revolution which led to the removal of Egypt’s former president Hosni Mobarak.
Shot after the coup in the summer of 2013 when a military regime was re-imposing its authority, the film features nine workers-actors who gather for a workshop on a rooftop in downtown Cairo. From there, the action moves to a tent that forms the film’s fictional space where they perform confrontations drawn from everyday life, with the police and in the workplace, inhabiting a space between the theatrical and the real. Through reenactment and collective choreography, the film reveals how political and economic forces are inscribed in the body and how performance can become a site of resistance within the space of the factory, positioned as a microcosm of Egypt itself.
In the conversation following the screening, the filmmakers will reflect on how this work informed the development of their collaborative projects [Exercises] On Trials (2016/2020).
Part of the public programme Footnote to the Present, this is the first of two corresponding events in which Jasmina Metwaly and Philip Rizk convene to reflect on the role of performance and theatricality in their work, both collaborative and individual across the years.
Image: Film still, Out on the Street by Jasmina Metwaly and Philip Rizk, 2015. Courtesy of artists.
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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.
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.
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