Philip Rizk

filmmaker and writer

Philip Rizk is a filmmaker and writer from Cairo 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 Terrible Sounds & Wonderful Things (2022, work in progress), 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?” He is a member of the Mosireen video collective behind the archive 858.ma. His texts include the essay “2011 is not 1968: a letter to an onlooker,” and the co-authored book On Trials: A Manual on the Theatre of Law (Archive Books, 2021, with Jasmina Metwaly). He occasionally teaches in classrooms and workshops. His work can be followed at filfilfilm.com.