North American Premiere

In-Person Only

Virtual Reality

Remember this place, 31°20’46”N 34°46’46”E

Directed by:

Patricia Echeverria Liras

Country:

Qatar

USA

Runtime:

00:25:00

“Remember this place, 31°20’46”N 34°46’46”E,” is an interactive virtual reality experience about home. The documentary was co-created with some of the last Bedouin communities across historic Palestine.

The story does not take place in one location. It does not have one protagonist. It is a journey across many homes, with many women from Bedouin communities whose livelihood and culture continue to be threatened to this day. Throughout the journey, we meet women who are activists, architects, artists, and poets who are working to digitize their community’s memory and heritage.

The film brings together fragments of spaces, personal memories, and visions of the future to create a virtual universe that speaks about home while preserving the subjective memories of a culture that is threatened to be erased.

Director:

Patricia Echeverria Liras

Patricia Echeverria Liras is a documentary film director and producer, trained in architecture and documentary film. She works across the fields of ethnographic research, documentary film, and immersive art. She runs “The Office for Public Therapy Politics” a new media creative studio and documentary production company, which focuses on documentary film, human rights, and immersive technologies. She has directed and produced international projects including a “Public Therapy Tour” with Matadero Madrid, “Outside In,” “Parallel Utopias,” at the Korean DMZ with National Geographic, “In This Land” with SAT (Société des arts Technologiques) NYU ITP, and the Venice Biennale College Lab. Most recently she directed and produced “Remember This Place: 31°20’46’’N 34°46’46’’E“ which premiered at the Venice International Film Festival.