Philip Rizk is a film-maker & writer from Cairo living in Berlin. In his films he experiments with methods of Ostranenie—“making the habitual strange.” In Out on the Street (2015, co-directed w/ Jasmina Metwaly) he uses performance, while in Land Listening (2024) and his found footage films Mapping Lessons (2020), Terrible Sounds (2022) and Terror Tales (2024) he experiments with the technique of montage. In a world that is breaking down, a question that runs throughout Rizk’s projects is, “how do we prepare ourselves for what is to come?” Rizk is a member of the Mosireen video collective behind the archive 858.ma. His writings include the essay “2011 is not 1968: a letter to an onlooker,” and “a letter to the-survivors-of-the-old-time.” He is the editor of the upcoming book “Neocolonialism & its Dismantling,” which puts Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth in conversation with the revolutions of the Arabic-speaking region in the past 15 years. Rizk irregularly teaches in classrooms and workshops.