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).