Out on the Street | Barra Fel Share' - Film Review

Strava, C. (2019)

Article / Letter to editor

In a makeshift rooftop studio overlooking the city of Cairo nine men gather for a workshop in which they enact, according to the film’s makers, “confrontations of everyday life, with the police and at the workplace” (Metwaly & Rizk). Opening up with a trance-like segment of grainy footage of a gritty, dilapidated space which we are led to believe might be a disaffected factory, Out on the Street is a non-linear collection of scenes shot in the rooftop workshop, a series of fictionalized performances (or re-enactments of common scenarios), and footage shot on a cellphone by one of the workers who intends to use it as evidence in a court case against his employer.

• All authors: Strava, C.
• Date: 2019-05-01
• Journal: URBANITIES : Journal of the Commission on Urban Anthropology
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 124 - 125
• Link: http://www.anthrojournal-urbanities.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/May-2...