Backslash Intervention 2026 - Patricia Echeverria Liras

Patricia Echeverría Liras is a filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist working across documentary film, immersive media, ethnographic research, and participatory practice. Trained in architecture and documentary filmmaking, her work examines systems of power through landscape, technological infrastructures, and collective memory.

Her projects frequently begin with long-term field research and collaboration with communities before taking the form of films, immersive media experiences, installations, performances, and speculative interfaces. She is the founder of The Office for Public Therapy Politics, a creative studio and documentary production company.

Her previous works include Remember This Place: 31°20′46″N 34°46′46″E, Public Therapy Tour, Outside In, Parallel Utopias, and In This Land. Across these projects, she explores how technologies that map and model reality can be repurposed to construct counter-archives and create new forms of collective witnessing. Her current research investigates the relationship between AI infrastructures and rivers, examining the extractive ecological conditions that sustain contemporary computation systems, while exploring technologies of listening as a means of imagining more reciprocal relationships between technology infrastructures and the natural world.

Artist collaborator - Leo Nelki

Leo Nelki is a documentary producer and director based between Tokyo and Merseyside. His practice approaches cinema as a kind of civic technology: a way of connecting inner experience to the external world, and making political, technological and ecological realities intersect with imagination.

His producing work includes Maisha Maene’s Mulika, which screened at Sundance, Locarno and Clermont-Ferrand, and the feature documentary Spaceman in Kongo, now in late development. As a director, he is in late production on Broad Listening, a short doc about AI and democratic participation in Japan, and Beneath A Thousand Streams, about the circular relationship between AI systems and rivers, and how technologies of listening might widen our ideas of democracy beyond the human.