Philip Rizk is a film-maker from Cairo living in Berlin. In his films he experiments with methods of “making the habitual strange.” He did this through performance in the co-directed film Out on the Street (2015) and Exercises on Trials (2016) and through the technique of montage in his found footage films Mapping Lessons (2020) and Terrible Sounds/ Wonderful Things (work in progress). 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 texts have appeared online, in journals and in collected volumes including 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). He is a Berlin Artistic Research Grant Programme fellow, and regularly teaches in classrooms and workshops.