Filmmaker and researcher Maddi Barber (Valle de Arce, Navarra, 1988) holds a degree in Audiovisual Communication from the University of the Basque Country and a Master’s in Visual Anthropology from the University of Manchester. Her cinematic projects are closely tied to the pre-Pyrenean territory where she was born and explore the relationship between memory, territory, infrastructure, ecology, and an ethics of care between humans and nature. Through various cinematic strategies, she seeks to depict the frictions and challenges experienced by both human and non-human inhabitants of the contemporary rural landscape.

In 2019, she founded the production company Pirenaika, through which she has produced several of her own films as well as works by other artists and filmmakers from the region. Her work has been showcased at festivals such as Visions du Réel (Nyon), San Sebastián International Film Festival – Zabaltegi (Donostia), FIDMarseille (Marseille), Open City (London), Documenta Madrid, and Punto de Vista (Iruñea), among others. It has also been exhibited in art institutions including the San Telmo Museum (Donostia), Oteiza Museum (Alzuza), La Panera (Lleida), Artium Museum (Gasteiz), Fine Arts Museum (Bilbao), and Bolit Museum (Girona).