Out on the Streets
Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage
Jasmina Metwaly, Philip Rizk / Feature Documentary / Egypt, Qatar / 2014 / 71 min / Colour / Original Language: Arabic / Interests: Social Issues, Docufiction, Documentary, Politics
Synopsis
Nine men gather for a workshop on a rooftop. There they perform confrontations of everyday life, with the police and at the workplace.
In the process, the actors engage a space between the theatrical and the real.
This is not a film about workers.
The factory is a microcosm, مصر على صغير.
Credits
- Director
- Jasmina Metwaly, Philip Rizk
- Screenwriter
- Jasmina Metwaly, Philip Rizk
- Producer
- Mostafa Youssef
About the Director
Born to an Egyptian father and a Polish mother, Jasmina Metwaly is a Cairo-based artist and filmmaker, and member of the Mosireen collective. She works in video and film, and has recently started drawing again. She likes to work with people and their histories, texts, archives, images, scripts and drawings. She is interested in how stories create stories, and how they leave the space of one reality and enter another, intertwining the boundaries of both. Rooted in performance and theatre, her works focus on process-based practices that have a social function that generates tension between participants and audiences.
Philip Rizk is a filmmaker and writer based in Cairo. Together with Jasmina Metwaly, he directed the feature film ‘Out on the Street’ (2015), which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and was part of the German pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Rizk is a member of the Mosireen video collective. His texts have appeared online, in journals and in collected volumes, including ‘Uncommon Grounds – New Media and Critical Practices in the Middle East and North Africa’ (IB Tauris, 2014). In November, 2015, Rizk’s audio installation ‘A Colonial Landscape’ accompanied Tobias Zielony’s photography exhibition of the same name at Fotohof, Salzburg. He is currently working with Metwaly on a new project entitled ‘On Trials’.
Awards and Festival History
Festivals
Berlinale 2015, Forum Expanded (WP)
LatinArab Film Festival 2015, Arab Features
The Museum of Modern Art (NYC)
Contacts
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Main Contact
Jasmina Metwaly
- Company:
- Seen films
- Phone:
- +20 127 313 7060
- Email:
- j.metwaly@gmail.com
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Main Contact
Mostafa Youssef
- Company:
- Seen Films
- Phone:
- +20 227 510 415
- Email:
- mostafa@seenfilms.com