Gabès Cinéma Fen
Patricia Echeverría Liras curated the festival’s immersive exhibition in Gabès, Tunisia, in 2025.
Independent film, research & creative studio
Creative documentary · Research-led nonfiction · Immersive media
Independent documentary production.
Research-led films and immersive nonfiction.
The Office for Public Therapy Politics is an independent studio working across documentary film, immersive media, artistic research and curatorial practice. The Office develops and produces artist-driven projects rooted in long-term fieldwork, collaboration and formal experimentation.
Working across cinema, contemporary art and research environments, the studio investigates how technology, territory, infrastructure, memory and political systems shape lived experience.
Alongside its own productions, The Office collaborates with filmmakers, artists, research groups and cultural institutions on commissioned and interdisciplinary projects.
Current & selected productions
A slate of creative documentary and immersive nonfiction.
Current projects in development appear first, followed by significant completed work.
Original / studio-led projects
01 · Feature documentary · In development
Wolf Game
Field research · creative documentary · reenactment · virtual economies · territory
Directed by Patricia Echeverria Liras
Production companies: The Office for Public Therapy Politics & Kaboga
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02 · Speculative documentary · In development
Beneath a Hundred Streams
Documentary research · AI infrastructure · ecology · sensing · environmental governance
Co-directed / co-produced by Patricia Echeverria Liras and Leo Nelki
Production company: The Office for Public Therapy Politics
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03 · Immersive documentary / VR installation · 2023
Remember This Place
Immersive documentary · spatial research · testimony · memory · community collaboration
Directed by Patricia Echeverria Liras
Production company: The Office for Public Therapy Politics
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Immersive documentary · In development
Explore the full project archive Lifta: A Life Not Forgotten
Directed by Sohail Dahdal
Producer: Patricia Echeverria Liras / The Office for Public Therapy Politics
View project ↗ Documentary film · In developmentAbdallah on the Moon
Directed by Hussam Halawa
Producer: Patricia Echeverria Liras / The Office for Public Therapy Politics
View project ↗The practice
A practice across film, research, technology and public culture.
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Documentary production
Creative documentary and research-led nonfiction developed through long-term fieldwork and international co-production.
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Research & emerging media
Field research, participatory methodologies and interdisciplinary investigations spanning technology, territory, infrastructure and public life.
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Curation & programming
Exhibitions, screenings and public programmes connecting documentary, immersive media and contemporary social questions.
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Institutional collaboration
Research commissions, laboratories and interdisciplinary projects developed with cultural, academic and research organizations.
Selected collaborations & contexts
Developed across film, culture and research environments.
The Office works with filmmakers, festivals, cultural institutions and research programmes across documentary, emerging media, research and public culture.
The Media Majlis
Remember this Place was presented in MetaWhat?, the exhibition at The Media Majlis at Northwestern University in Qatar.
SAT · NYU ITP · Snap Labs
Our immersive work has developed through the Société des arts technologiques, NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program and Snap Labs residency and presentation contexts.
National Geographic · AM Qattan · Matadero Madrid
Patricia developed Parallel Utopias with the DMZ Forum and National Geographic. Public Therapy Tour was supported by the AM Qattan Foundation and Matadero Madrid.
Cornell Tech · Backslash Intervention
Current research investigates environmental sensing, computational infrastructure and ways of making ecological processes perceptible through interdisciplinary artistic and technological research.
Selected press & industry