The Office for
Public Therapy Politics

The Office

The Office for
Public Therapy Politics.

The Office for Public Therapy Politics is an independent film, research and creative studio working across documentary, immersive media, artistic research and curatorial practice.

Projects often begin with long-term research and evolve across different forms — film, installation, fieldwork, public programmes and emerging media — according to the questions being investigated.

The studio works internationally with filmmakers, artists, researchers, cultural institutions and interdisciplinary collaborators.

Approach

Nonfiction across observation, participation, performance, technology and research.

The Office is interested in forms of nonfiction capable of moving between observation, participation, performance, technology and research. Its work focuses particularly on situations where political, technological and environmental systems become visible through everyday life.

What we do

Documentary production, shaped by research.

Institutional collaborations

Beyond production.

Beyond production, The Office works with cultural institutions, universities and research organisations through selected commissions, workshops and long-term collaborations.

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.

01 / Curation

Gabès Cinéma Fen

Patricia Echeverría Liras curated the festival’s immersive exhibition in Gabès, Tunisia, in 2025.

02 / Exhibition

The Media Majlis

Remember this Place was presented in MetaWhat?, the exhibition at The Media Majlis at Northwestern University in Qatar.

03 / Immersive technology

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.

04 / Institutional work

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.

05 / Research & emerging technology

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

Industry &
institutional record.

Selected documentary, festival and institutional references.

Articles

Variety · Cannes Docs · 2025 Palestine Film Institute Calls for Decision-Makers to Amplify Palestinian Filmmakers’ Voices The article covers Wolf Game, quotes Patricia (credited there as Patricia El) and names The Office as its production label. Business Doc Europe · DocsBarcelona Pro · 2026 DocsBarcelona Pro unveils its selected projects The industry report credits Patricia as producer of Lifta, a Life Not Forgotten and as director and producer of Wolf Game.

Institutional listings

La Biennale di Venezia · Venice Immersive · 2023 Remember This Place In competition; the production credit names The Office and The Media Majlis. Palestine Film Institute · Cannes Docs · 2025 Wolf Game Selected for the Palestine documentary showcase, with Patricia (listed as Patricia El) credited as director and producer through The Office. BFI Doc Society · Future Proof · 2026 Untitled River AI Film Patricia and Leo Nelki are listed as director/producers in the development lab. EURODOC · 2026 Producer cohort Patricia is listed among the producers selected for the 2026 programme.

Founder & Creative Director

Patricia Echeverria Liras

The founder’s personal website will contain individual writing, biography and professional history.

Contact

For productions, co-productions and selected institutional collaborations.

Discuss a project with The Office